What is recorded here
Ballyminymore still holds the buried line of a Rath, though no wall stands above the soil to mark it. The ground may have swallowed the fortress, but it did not erase the shape of the people who turned that land into a defensible life. To walk past the site is to step through a forgotten room in the house of Antrim, where absence becomes the proof that someone once refused to be forgotten.
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.
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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