What is recorded here
Dunanney holds a rath, which means a fort or defended place, though no surviving wall or ditch is recorded to show where the boundary ran. The name preserves the shape of the site rather than a visible ruin, leaving the true size and purpose uncertain. It may have been a household enclosure, a seasonal camp or a boundary marker for a local group.
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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