What is recorded here
Drumawillin holds a rath, an ancient earthwork whose boundary still marks the landscape despite the absence of a visible ruin. The name survives in official records while the shape fades from memory, inviting imagination rather than certainty. A rath is a place of enclosure, perhaps residential, perhaps defensive, and its continuation into modern mapping suggests the land still recognises the form even when people no longer do.
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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