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RATH in Rathkeelan

RATH

What is recorded here

RATH in Rathkeelan, County Armagh, is an earthwork that still holds its shape after centuries of rain and foot traffic. It is the kind of place where people once drew a line around what mattered, then lived inside that line until the boundary became ordinary. The field does not explain itself, but it remembers the shape of human choice.
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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