What is recorded here
Multivallate rath and underground passage in Lisnalinchy, County Antrim, built across several ridges or ditches and still scheduled for protection. The fort may have shown strength from a distance while the passage gave people a hidden route when rain, danger or dispute closed the open field. O'Loingsech may have lived there, resisted there or simply been remembered through the shape of the land.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MULTIVALLATE RATH; Man-made underground passage: LISNALINCHY or THE FORT OF O'LOINGSECH or SILENTIA FORT. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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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