
What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture, on the floodplain of the Dead River 190m to N and its confluence with the Mulkear River 210m to NW. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 133: AP 4/3730) as a substantial oval-shaped cropmark which is cut by a drainage channel running WNW-ESE across the NE sector. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 80m NW-SE x 76m NE-SW) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 July 2020
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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