What is recorded here

Ten ancient forts dotted the northern edge of Rathcannon when surveyors first walked the flat pasture in 1840. This enclosure still holds its shape beneath grass and memory, a shallow oval barely eleven metres across where a bank once rose against the sky. People may have lived inside that small circle, watched the fields, or simply marked the land before forgetting the name.

In reclaimed flat pasture, ringfort (LI039-023----) 280m to the W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map an oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken oval-shaped area (dims. c. 11m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a bank from NW-N-NE and reduced to a scarp elsewhere. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘one of ten ancient forts’ in the N of the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 139). Levelled monument visible as circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006. Visible as a shallow depression on Google earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 14 April 2021

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