What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ardcarn (boyle By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ardcarn (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a rock shelf above a low landscape and preserves a circular grass area twenty-seven metres across. A broad earthen bank surrounds the centre, while a collapsed drystone wall spreads across its top. The north-east and south-east edges show quarrying, and another cashel stands forty metres to the south-east.

On a shelf of rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 27m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-8.3m; int. H 0.4-0.75m; ext. H 0.5-1.1m) which is surmounted by the spread of a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.3-2.35m; H 0.1m). There is no visible fosse or entrance, and the perimeter has been quarried at NE and SE. Cashel (RO006-161001-) is c. 40m to the SE. See the attached aerial image taken from the SE with this monument at the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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