What is recorded here
Stone walls still angle across the Ballyurnanellan shore, marking a medieval fish trap that turned tidal chaos into predictable capture. The stones did not force the water; they taught the fish where the kill would come. People may have stood at the lip as the tide pulled, reading the trap the way readers decode a sentence.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as STONE FISH TRAP. Recorded period: MEDIEVAL. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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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