What is recorded here
A spring is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map immediately SSW of the enclosure, in tillage. Identified on an aerial photograph (GB90.CH.03, 16 July 1990) shows a cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing SE. There is a ringfort (KK019-006----) c. 110m to the W.
Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 21 October 2020
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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