What is recorded here
Drumsesk in County Down, Ireland: a rath stands where a rath should, a boundary the body remembers before the mind names it. Whether it marked a farm, a warning or a promise, the stones kept that shape through rain and forgetting. A person may have drawn a line in soil there, not on any map, and the line is still drawing back.
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.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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