The Rath of Stormont
In response to Barry McElduff's implicit threat to neutralise the pro British symbols around Stormont, which I alluded to in the Stormont Didgeridoo, David McNarry has now confirmed that both Craigavon's Tomb and Carson's statue are protected as listed monuments.
A written answer from Arlene Foster, before she left her Environment brief, also explained that "there are likely to be surviving buried archaeological remains in the area". Will they shift in their graves if the Police play too loud on Friday night?
The estate includes an enclosure and a mound "likely to be the remains of a monument known as a rath or ringfort, a type of high status semi defensive earthwork monument that often contained a farmstead in the period between c.700 - c.1000 A.D." During that era of raiding Vikings and warring local Chieftains, I am sure a good solid earth bank came in very handy. But how could those original Stormont farmers have survived without standing orders, D'Hondt and cross community voting?
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