What is recorded here
Situated on a natural terrace on the slope of a high hill. The ground falls steeply to a stream 20m to W. Trapezium-shaped area (int. dims. c. 28m N-S x 27.5m across its broader S side) enclosed by the remains of a bank and fosse on its W side and elsewhere by a low earthen bank and a well-defined, partly waterlogged fosse. Original entrance not recognisable.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV021-039
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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