Building in Addinstown

Situated on top of a low hill with good views of the surrounding countryside, Addinstown House located 190m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure (WM014-012----) with a rectangular ruin in the interior annotated as ‘fort’ and ‘ruins’. On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map the enclosure is depicted standing inside a square-shaped tree plantation of post-1700 date. A trig. point in the SW quadrant of the monument marks the height 301 ft. No surface remains visible of levelled enclosure or rectangular building which stood inside the enclosure. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018