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PLATFORM RATH in Doogary

PLATFORM RATH

What is recorded here

Doogary holds a platform rath, an elevated earthwork built by human hands long before written record. The distinction matters: a true rath is made by people, shaped for defence or display, not dropped from the sky. That much is clear. What is missing is the life it served, the hands that raised it and the reason it stood out from the flat land.
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.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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