What is recorded here

Castlemaddy is a field system and sheepfold in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, where stone boundaries still cut across grass that has forgotten the hands which built them. The exact period remains unassigned, but the shape of the work is clear: enclosure, division, and the keeping of living things within marked limits. Whether the fields served a family, a monastery, or a passing army, the stones repeated the same command, stay within this place and do not wander into the dark.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlemaddy as Field System (period Unassigned), Sheepfold (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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