What is recorded here
RATH in Crosshill, County Antrim, Ireland is a scheduled ancient earthwork, not a modern building or invented legend. Its boundary still belongs to the land, preserving the shape of human activity long before written memory. The site may have served as a boundary marker, gathering place or defensive position, yet no exact event is recorded. What remains is a rare survival: a local landscape that kept its form while surrounding life changed.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as 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
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ECCLESIASTICAL ENCLOSURE (possibly related to the Church of Miloc) in BallygortgarveECCLESIASTICAL ENCLOSURE (possibly related to the Church of Miloc) · 816 yd
Railway viaductViaduct · 864 yd
Crumlin Presbyterian ChurchChurch · 1055 yd
Main StreetVisitor information · 2.6 mi
Lady BayBay · 6.0 mi
Lignaboy PointHeadland · 6.4 mi
Site of CHURCH; GRAVEYARD & CASTLE: RATHMORE or CASTLE FIELD in RathmoreSite of CHURCH; GRAVEYARD & CASTLE: RATHMORE or CASTLE FIELD · 6.6 mi
Slievenacloy Nature ReserveNature reserve · 7.1 mi
Belshaw's Quarry Nature ReserveNature reserve · 7.9 mi