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RATH in Knockbarragh

RATH

What is recorded here

Knockbarragh holds a rath, an ancient earthwork whose boundary still marks the field though human hands built it before written memory. The chamber may have housed a family, a herdsman or a fleeing person during a sudden storm. Its soil absorbed every footstep and every argument until the grass returned. What remains is a room without walls, waiting for someone to remember the shape of the life it held.
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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