What is recorded here

A wide low bank of earth and stone still circles Aghareagh, marking a large ringfort on a shallow slope. People may have lived inside, tended animals, or simply avoided the drowned depression at its edge. Farms and ploughs have since softened the work, but the broken causeway and shallow trench remain visible in the pasture.

On a NNE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 67.9m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.1m; H 0.3-0.9m) with a wide, shallow external fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.75m). From W-N-NNE the circuit and the morphology of the bank and fosse have been modified due to their incorporation into a modern field boundary. Elsewhere the outer face of the bank has been steepened. From NNE-E-SE the fosse survives as a very wide, very shallow, extremely waterlogged depression (Wth 9.2m; D 0.1m). From SE-S-SSW it has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A wide break (Wth 4.4m) in the bank at S with an accompanying causeway probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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