What is recorded here
Mortars and stones still mark the edge of Ballyvanen, though the hands that stacked them have long since crumbled to soil. A rath is a boundary drawn in stone, and boundaries require people fierce enough to keep them. Whether lovers, farmers or fleeing families lived inside that circle remains unknown. The stone still holds the shape of their urgency, waiting for a human voice to complete the sentence.
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.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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