
What is recorded here
In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 200m W of a townland boundary with Oldtown. Ringfort (LI032-156----) lies 12m to N. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 294: AP5/2046) as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is visible as a faint roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 19.5m) defined by a possible fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 294
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 352/9 taken on 05/01/2003.
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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