What is recorded here
Dunturk in County Down, Ireland. A hidden chamber or cave, a rath, waits beneath the land. People may have entered it to hide, pray or remember what rain and time erase. The chamber does not need a visible ruin to keep its purpose alive.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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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