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Raised rath is a prehistoric earthwork monument located in County Down, Northern Ireland. The site represents a form of enclosed settlement characteristic of the Iron Age and early medieval periods in Ireland, constructed as a defended domestic enclosure with a raised internal platform surrounded by banks or walls. Such raths served as homesteads for farming communities and functioned as centres of local authority and social organisation. The monument's precise dating and construction sequence would require archaeological investigation to establish definitively, though raths of this type were widely utilised across Ireland from the pre-Christian period through the early Christian centuries.
Raised rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 8052. View the official record →
Raised rath is a prehistoric earthwork monument located in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 8052.
Raised 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.
Raised 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 8052.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lismahon. raised rath reused as motte (1.5 km), Motte (2.2 km), St. patrick's well, parkaneety graveyard, killyglinne. church, graveyard & holy well (3.1 km).
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