What is recorded here
Situated in pasture-land on the NW face of a ridge which runs SE-NW. Annotated as ’fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (approx. diam. 15m E-W) adjoining the SW side of a ringfort (WM007-079----). This site has been levelled. Faint traces of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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