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Embanked enclosure — Cloonfad Beg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

Why this matters

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

What is recorded here

On top of a small NE-SW drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 39.5 N-S; 31.1m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E and S to 1.5m at N), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) WNW-N. There is no visible entrance, and the perimeter is incorporated into a field boundary and hedge W-N. Rath (RO011-118001-) is immediately to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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