What is recorded here
Ring bank, ring cairn and hut site in Largantea, County Derry, Ireland, belong to the prehistoric period. Stones and soil may have marked a home, a boundary or a place where people gathered before written memory. The land keeps that shape still, waiting for hands to imagine what it held.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as RING BANK & CAIRN, RING CAIRN & HUT SITE. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
A Neolithic ring cairn and associated hut site, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE, representing early ritual and domestic activity in the prehistoric landscape. Its significance lies in providing evidence of settlement and ceremonial practices in the region during the Neolithic period.
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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