What is recorded here
Mortars and bullets still mark the platform in West Division, but the chamber holds no gun case and no victim name. The chamber is a visible absence, a hole cut through the world where one life stopped being a secret. I want to know which man disappeared into that chamber and whether the state still treats his name as a weapon.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PLATFORM 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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