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Pretty Mary's Fort is a bivallate rath situated near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of two concentric earthen banks with intervening ditches, a defensive configuration characteristic of early Christian ringforts constructed during the Early Christian period. Such raths served as fortified homesteads for local chieftains and their families, functioning as centres of both domestic and economic activity within the early medieval Irish landscape. The site's preservation as an archaeological monument reflects the importance of these ringfort complexes in understanding settlement patterns and social organisation in early Christian Ulster.
Pretty mary's fort. bivallate rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6624. View the official record →
Pretty Mary's Fort is a bivallate rath situated near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6624.
Pretty mary's fort. bivallate 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.
Pretty mary's fort. bivallate 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 6624.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multi-ditched enclosure (5.8 km), Phil's fort. mound (motte? or raised rath?) (6.9 km), Rath (6.9 km).
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