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RATH in Drumbockany

RATH

What is recorded here

Drumbockany holds a rath, an ancient earthwork that marked power long before modern borders drew their straight lines. The land remembers the shape of human ambition even when the names and dates have faded from official memory. A rath is not a ruin in the usual sense; it is a claim made visible, a boundary built by hands that believed they would be remembered.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. 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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