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RATH in Killykeeran

RATH

What is recorded here

Killykeeran still holds the buried line of a fighting castle, its stones forgotten but its purpose plain. men built a defensible ring where the land allowed, then left the field to grass and rain. The name survives only because someone marked the point on a map, yet the shape suggests more: a household, a boundary dispute, a seasonal camp, or a small pride made visible. That much is absent, but the absence gives the place life.
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
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