What is recorded here
BALLYWEE in County Antrim held four houses and three underground passages during the E.CHRIST. period. People may have lived above and hidden below when danger or weather came. The small settlement shows that early Christian life there was practical, crowded and adaptable.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COMPLEX EARLY CHRISTIAN SETTLEMENT WITH 4 HOUSES & 3 Man-made underground passages: BALLYWEE. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. 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
- Recorded monument
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