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RATH (site of) in Ballycroghan

RATH (site of)

What is recorded here

Ballycroghan still hides a lost rath, perhaps a circular fort or burial mound now vanished under grass and forgetting. The name survives only in a public record, pointing to an exact spot where human hands may have shaped the earth centuries ago. That much is certain. The rest belongs to imagination: a family home, a boundary marker, a child's climbing hill, or a warning kept private by locals who stopped visiting when the shape faded.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as RATH (site of). Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. 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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