Why this matters
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
What is recorded here
In pasture, abutting a townland boundary with Anhid west, to N and 455m SW of the River Maigue. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as two concentric circular-shaped cropmarks visible on aerial photography by Celie O’Rahilly, Limerick County Archaeologist in advance of construction of the Croom bypass. Monument described as: ‘A circular mound defined by a shallow ditch abutting the northern boundary [of a field]. Approximate north-south diameter is 36m. This site would not appear to be affected by the route line’. Monument is visible as a bivallate circular-shaped cropmark with a small annexe to S, on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 23 October 2020
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