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  • Lissue Rath

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Archaeology & Monuments

    (near) Lissue Industrial Estate
    Mazetown
    BT28 2XF
    United Kingdom

    Contact

    Phone: 028 9082 3207
    Email: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk

    Additional Information

    Open to the public: Yes, entry is free (Sometimes public access is restricted due to works for example. Check before you visit)
    Grid reference: J2278063250
    View on the Historic Environment Map Viewer
    SM number: ANT 067:013
    View details on the NI Sites & Monuments Record (NISMR)

    About Lissue Rath

    The surroundings of the site are greatly altered as it is now surrounded by an industrial estate. Excavation by Professor Gerhart Bersu in 1946–1947 showed that the circular banked and ditched enclosure, superficially unimpressive, was a complex Early Christian farmstead. Its diameter is big, at about 60m, and excavation showed that the present site had been preceded by a smaller enclosure. Its wet ditch produced many organic finds, including wooden bowls and a churn. The second earthwork, the one now visible, had three phases and in each the whole interior was occupied by a single, huge building with a central hearth. Nothing like this has been found elsewhere and it has been suggested that it was a royal site.

    Other historic places you can visit:

    • Love Heritage NI
    Lissue Rath
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