RATH: CUCKOLD HILL in Cloven Eden

Cuckold Hill is a rath in Cloven Eden, County Armagh, recorded for the Christian era. The official map places a point at the centre of the hill, while the hill itself may have stood with a fence, ditch or doorway for as long as people could remember. It is the kind of place where a family kept goats, children climbed at dusk and an old woman warned them not to roll stones into the hollow. That warning is not a joke, because hills remember the shape of fear long after the names have faded.