What is recorded here
Towards the top of a SW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32m NE-SW; 31m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (at NE: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) SW-W-NE, and a fosse (Wth of top 4m; int. D 0.9m; ext. D 0.1m) SE-WSW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE (L 14m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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