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Rath is a Bronze Age rath situated in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Raths are circular or oval earthwork enclosures, typically consisting of a raised bank and internal ditch, which served as defended homesteads or settlement centres during the later prehistoric period. This example is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference number 5342, recognising its archaeological significance.
The monument occupies land underlain by the Tyrone Group, a sequence of sedimentary rocks formed during the Visean period of the Carboniferous. These strata comprise limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone with subordinate deposits of chert, coal and conglomerate, which would have influenced both the character of the local soils and the resources available to Bronze Age inhabitants of the site.
The rath's position in the Armagh landscape reflects the pattern of settlement distribution typical of its period, when such enclosed homesteads became an established form of domestic and defensive architecture across Ireland. The survival of its earthwork structure, despite subsequent agricultural use, permits continued archaeological study of Bronze Age settlement, economy and social organisation in this region of Ulster.
Rath is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 5342. View the official record →
Rath is a Bronze Age rath situated in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 5342.
Rath dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a rath. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
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 5342.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Doogary lough. possible crannog in doogary lough (5.1 km), Lisglynn. rath & souterrain (5.3 km), The doonan. mound (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of 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.
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.