What is recorded here
No visible trace remains in Ballynafie, County Antrim. The name preserves a borderland where human hands shaped earth, and memory continues to hold the shape after flesh and timber left it empty.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COUNTERSCARP RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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
Places near here
TullyMountain / peak · 830 yd
ENCLOSURE in BallynafieENCLOSURE · 1197 yd
Top WoodWood · 1644 yd
ENCLOSURE (unlocated) in AughnahoyENCLOSURE (unlocated) · 1682 yd
Portglenone ForestForest · 1.3 mi
Masonic HallHall · 1.6 mi
Parish ChurchChurch · 1.8 mi
CASTLE (site of): PORTGLENONE CASTLE in GarvaghyCASTLE (site of): PORTGLENONE CASTLE · 2.0 mi
FORD across R. BANN & SITE OF BATTLE, 1689 (see also ANT 031:052 for opposite side of the river) in GlenoneFORD across R. BANN & SITE OF BATTLE, 1689 (see also ANT 031:052 for opposite side of the river) · 2.3 mi
Scroggy Mass RockNamed rock · 4.2 mi
Seamus HeaneyMemorial · 4.3 mi
MOTTE AND BAILEY: McQUILLAN'S CASTLE in GalgormMOTTE AND BAILEY: McQUILLAN'S CASTLE · 4.5 mi