What is recorded here

Counterscarp raths are the outer ditches that wrapped early Irish strongholds, and Doonan still holds one in County Fermanagh. The main fortress may have vanished beneath grass and footing, but the outer trench remains a scheduled marker of the boundary people once drew around what they valued. That is often all a rath gives back: a line in the earth where ambition, fear or pride still bends the land.

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.

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