What is recorded here
On E-facing slope immediately N of John's Hill, in the northern hills of the Blackstairs Mountains, in dense vegetation. There is a field system, indicated on the 1st (c. 1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, immediately N and W of the enclosure. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 27m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE at NE, tapering to c. 12m at the SW) identified by Séamus Ó Murchú on Bing satellite imagery (Ó Murchú 2016).
See attached:
CW020-031----_01 Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 21 December 2020
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 December 2020
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Enclosure in CarrickduffEnclosure · 1.6 mi
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Saint Paul's Church (Barragh)church/chapel · 1.7 mi
Saint Lazerian's Catholic Churchchurch/chapel · 1.8 mi
Site of Clonmullen CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.9 mi
St Bridget's WellSpring · 2.0 mi
Common LimeCommon Lime · 2.3 mi
Bunclody 1798 Bicentenary MemorialMemorial · 2.3 miOther information
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