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Rathra, an amazing multi-period monument with great views over Castlerea in north Co Roscommon. This multi-vallate (many banks around it) enclosure has bronze age, iron age and medieval features that have not been excavated. The image below is of me posing at the inside of the innermost ring at Rathra, photo by Mike Croghan. It needs to be said that this bank and fosse effect is diminished over time because when constructed the inner fosse (low drain) would have been much deeper and the ditch (high bank) would have been much higher.
Con Connor at Rathra - Samhain 09
The aerial photo comes from the black and white era and I dont know who took it - but thank are due to the photographer. The site is unusual in that it slopes away to the west but this is not seen in any of the images captured on the day of my first visit. Note the second enclosure to the upper left. I reckon that is a ringfort and that the main monument is a ceremonial enclosure that may contain a henge.
Archive ariel photo of Rathra.
The archaeologists reckon this small mound to be from the Bronze Age. I watch and listen as I walk around these ancient structures and I can say that in my opinion this is not a fort - it is a ceremonial enclosure with a continuity of use and occupation as its reason for existing in the first place has not changed - there is a calm and beautiful energy here. I will visit this place again and again at different times of the day and night and year.
Bronze Age mound inside Rathra, Samhain 09
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