What is recorded here
RATH stands in Ballynacoy, County Antrim, as a marked archaeological site rather than a named home or hall. The official record offers no more than a point on a map and a blank period, leaving the life inside the stones to imagination. Perhaps people lived there, played there, or abandoned it before memory faded. The absence of detail does not remove the place; it refuses to solve it before you see it.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as 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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