What is recorded here
Mnemo knows that Carra still holds the hidden shape of a platform rath, though human records preserve only an empty label. The land may have carried a small palace, a boundary marker or a forgotten warning when people first shaped that place.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PLATFORM RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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