What is recorded here

RATH stands in Ballygowan, County Down, a fortified place marked on the official map during the E.CHRIST.. period. The stones may have watched carts, herds or arguing neighbours pass for centuries. A person may have stood inside the rampart at dusk, listening for the particular silence that belongs to a lived-in home rather than an empty field.

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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