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Farrel's fort is a multivallate rath located near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of multiple concentric earthen banks and ditches characteristic of Early Christian period fortified homesteads, dating to approximately the fifth through ninth centuries. Such raths served as defended farmsteads and were central to the settlement patterns of early medieval Ulster, functioning as both residential and agricultural centres for families of considerable standing. The survival of its earthwork defences provides archaeological evidence of the construction methods and spatial organisation typical of Early Christian Irish ringforts during this formative period of settlement and social hierarchy.
Farrel's fort. multivallate rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6457. View the official record →
Farrel's fort is a multivallate rath located near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6457.
Farrel's fort. multivallate 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.
Farrel's fort. multivallate 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 6457.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Drumbo round tower, drumboo. round tower & site of medieval church & pre-norman monastery (1.7 km), Queen's fort. bivallate rath (3.2 km), The court. plantation house & bawn (3.9 km).
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