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RATH in Kilgort

RATH

What is recorded here

Kilgort still holds a rath, though no modern hand has drawn its boundary or named the life lost inside. That absence does not diminish the place; it returns the ground to imagination. A person may have stood there in rain, watched the valley darken, and carried the shape of the field into memory. The official record preserves the name while withholding the story, inviting invention instead of certainty.
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.

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