What is recorded here

Early Christian hands built the first ring, but medieval warriors stripped its stones and raised a military mound above the old scar. Rathmullan Lower still carries both births: a sacred boundary rewritten as a weapon, then buried under grass and forgetting.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as RAISED RATH reused as MOTTE: RATHMULLEN MOUND. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; MEDIEVAL. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

A raised rath reused as a motte, dating to the Early Christian and Medieval periods. Its reuse reflects strategic adaptation of prehistoric monuments in later military contexts.

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