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TWO ENCLOSURES or RATHS in Milltown

TWO ENCLOSURES or RATHS

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Two raths stand in Milltown, County Down, their uncertain age preserving a binary choice rather than a single answer. One enclosure may have housed a family, the other a shrine, a prison or a warning, yet both still break the horizon. Their separation suggests disagreement made visible: two claims, two memories or two ways of owning the same ground.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TWO ENCLOSURES or RATHS. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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