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Rath at Fermanagh is a prehistoric Irish ringfort, one of a pair with a neighbouring example designated as monument 210. Dating to the early Christian period, this earthwork monument sits on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a sequence of Visean limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone with bands of chert, coal and conglomerate that underlies much of this part of Fermanagh. The geological substrate would have provided both challenges and resources to the monument's builders, who constructed their circular or oval ditch-and-bank enclosure in this landscape of mixed geology and drumlin terrain.
Raths of this type typically served as the defended homesteads of Irish free farmers and minor nobility during the early medieval period. The paired arrangement with monument 210 may reflect family or social bonds, or successive phases of settlement in this locality. The site's survival as an earthwork feature across more than a millennium of agricultural use testifies to the robustness of its original construction.
The rath is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, registered under monument reference 9565. Its study contributes to understanding settlement patterns and territorial organisation in early Christian Ulster.
Rath - one of pair with fer 210 is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9565. View the official record →
Rath at Fermanagh is a prehistoric Irish ringfort, one of a pair with a neighbouring example designated as monument 210.
Rath - one of pair with fer 210 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.
Rath - one of pair with fer 210 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 9565.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rath (6 km), Eagles' knoll cairn, giant's grave. passage tomb (6.5 km), Ring cairn (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Rath - one of pair with fer 210'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 - one of pair with fer 210 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.