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RATH in Dernish Island

RATH

What is recorded here

No visible trace remains on the open field, yet the flat ground and hidden ditch still mark the boundary of a living world. People may have built walls, not to keep others out but to hold the shape of their own days. The land remembers the pressure of that intention long after the stones disappeared.
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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