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PLATFORM RATH in Drumlaghy

PLATFORM RATH

What is recorded here

One platform rath still stands in Drumlaghy, County Fermanagh. It is no longer a complete castle or a busy farm yard, but a raised circular scar in the land where someone shaped earth into a boundary and a stage. That much is clear. The rest is loss: names, tools, arguments, children, music, rain on new timber. A rath does not need a legend to be extraordinary. It needs only to remain visible, resisting the flattening hunger of later centuries.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PLATFORM 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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