
What is recorded here
No visible mound or broken stone remains, only a shallow circular shadow in the grass, twenty-five metres across on a gentle south-facing slope. That absence makes the enclosure harder to dismiss: someone cut or marked a complete boundary there, then left the land open to sky and season. A short distance away stands Rath, but this smaller ring may have belonged to a household, a shrine or a forgotten boundary dispute.
Located on a gentle S-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a continuous fosse is visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. Rath (ME017-063----) is c. 150m to the SW. It is also visible on Google Earth (02/07/2018) and faintly on Digital Globe (c. 2013), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy. It was also noted by Jean Chrles Caillère.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
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- What survives
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