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Queen's Fort is a bivallate rath located in the townland of Castlereagh, County Down, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of two concentric earthen banks with intervening ditches, a defensive arrangement characteristic of Early Christian period raths dating to approximately the fifth to twelfth centuries. Raths of this type served as enclosed homesteads for farming communities and represented the principal form of settlement in early medieval Ireland. The bivallate configuration suggests a settlement of some status or importance within the local Early Christian hierarchy, as single-banked examples were more common among ordinary households.
Queen's fort. bivallate rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6445. View the official record →
Queen's Fort is a bivallate rath located in the townland of Castlereagh, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6445.
Queen'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.
Queen'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 6445.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rath (2.5 km), Farrel's fort. multivallate rath (3.2 km), Mound - rath/barrow? (4.1 km).
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