What is recorded here

Thirty metres east of its twin and thirty-five from a cairn, the first Baunteen ring stands as a raised oval platform, still visible in pasture beneath the Galtees. Westropp called the pair conjoined rings, and the land still holds that shape: a broad scarp, a level interior, and open sky in every direction. Whatever life moved through them, it did so where the eye could reach far, unhidden by wood or wall.

In pasture, with good views in all directions. An enclosure (LI050-018002-) lies to the immediate E and a cairn (LI050-019----) lies 35m to the SE. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank from W-N-NE, reduced to a scarp elsewhere, intersected at NE by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Westropp (1919, 21) described it as one of ‘The conjoined rings of Baunteen, with a cairn near them, lying below the great “Harps” formed by coombs and parallel watercourses on the flanks of the Galtees.’ Recorded by the ASI in 1999, as enclosure A of two enclosures, consisting of a raised circular platform (diam. 18m) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.6m; H 1.6m) with possible fosse (D 2.4m; Wth at top 5.4m; Wth at base 2.4m) and drain or stream running NW-SE between enclosures A and B([LI050-018002-). Interior level and lightly overgrown. Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 November 2021

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