What is recorded here
Counterfort rath and mound in Tullyrusk, County Antrim. Early Christian or uncertain. A ring of earth and shadow. People may have lived inside the ridge, watched the land, buried their dead beyond the mound. The name sounds like a fortress built against forgetting.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COUNTERSCARP RATH & MOUND. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; UNCERTAIN. 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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