Why this matters
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture 170m SW of the townland boundary with Kilsanlan and 30m S of a local road. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform delimited by planted trees. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 65m N-S, 55m E-W) enclosed by a bank from W-N-E reuced to a scarp elsewhere which serves as a field boundary. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as no surface remains visible of levelled monument known locally as a ‘lis’. Levelled earthwork visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 October 2021
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