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Counterscarp rath is an Early Christian ringfort situated in the Cookstown area of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The site consists of a small circular earthwork enclosure typical of the defended farmsteads that proliferated throughout Early Christian Ireland. Such raths served as residential and pastoral settlements for farming families of modest means and represent a characteristic form of settlement organization in the early medieval landscape. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork preserves evidence of the domestic settlement patterns and land use of the Early Christian period in Ulster.
Counterscarp rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 13129. View the official record →
Counterscarp rath is an Early Christian ringfort situated in the Cookstown area of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 13129.
Counterscarp rath dates from the e.christ. period, and is classified as a rath. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Counterscarp rath is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 13129.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bivallate rath (0.4 km), Rath (1.2 km), Salter's castle, salter'stown. plantation castle, bawn & village site (2.8 km).
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