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RATH in Drumaghadone

RATH

What is recorded here

No visible mound remains in Drumaghadone, County Down, yet the land still carries the shape of a rath. That absent circle may have held a home, a boundary or a warning, and its disappearance does not erase the reason it was built. The earth remembers the difference between empty ground and shaped ground, even when human hands have smoothed the evidence away.
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.

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