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Rahallan is a bivallate rath, a form of enclosed farmstead characteristic of early Christian Ireland. Located in County Fermanagh, the monument comprises two concentric circular earthwork banks with intervening ditches, a defensive arrangement typical of high-status settlement sites of the period. The site's location in the drumlin country of Fermanagh, where the underlying bedrock of Tyrone Group deposits provides a mixed geology of limestone, mudstone and sandstone, would have offered both building materials and fertile soils suitable for early medieval agriculture and stock-raising.
As a bivallate structure, Rahallan represents a more substantial settlement than single-vallate raths, suggesting it may have housed a family of considerable social standing or served as a minor chieftain's residence during the early Christian period. The double defences provided protection for dwellings, livestock and stored provisions against both casual raiders and organised threats.
The site remains a scheduled historic monument, protected by the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland under reference 10538. Though unexcavated, Rahallan preserves valuable evidence of early medieval settlement patterns and the territorial organisation of Fermanagh's landscape during a formative period in Irish history.
Rahallan. bivallate rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10538. View the official record →
Rahallan is a bivallate rath, a form of enclosed farmstead characteristic of early Christian Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10538.
Rahallan. 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.
Rahallan. 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 10538.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Platform rath (6 km), Sub-rectangular enclosure (7.1 km), Cup-&-ring-marked stone (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Rahallan. bivallate rath's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Rahallan. bivallate rath stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.