What is recorded here
Ardnacrohy holds a broken earthen ring where a missing field boundary still traces one edge. The land has been clipped and cut back until the fort is the clearest shape left behind. Its causeway and banks preserve the judgment of people who no longer have names, while the lost boundary disappears into pasture and memory.
In pasture, on slight ENE-facing slope at end of broad E-W ridge. Circular area (34.5m N-S; 37.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.65m) ESE->NNE, and defined by scarped edge NNE->ESE, with external fosse (D 0.75m; Wth 3.3m) NNW->NNE and NE->S, and with external earthen bank (ext. H 1.3m) NE->ESE. Causeway entrance (Wth 7.2m) at NE. Field boundary runs along outer line of fosse ESE->S; all other field boundaries in vicinity of site have been removed. Interior slopes down to N and is under pasture except NE quadrant which is covered by overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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