What is recorded here

Half a century of ploughing and livestock traffic has worn the ringfort in Ardrass Upper into a shallow scar, yet its 38-metre circle still marks the south foot of St Patrick's Hill. Later field banks cut across the interior like crude seams, and a cattle crush sits where the centre should be, turning an ancient defensive shape into a working farm trap. The earth has not forgotten the boundary; it has simply stopped performing it for visitors.

On level pasture at the S-foot of St Patrick's Hill (OD 308 feet). A very poorly preserved circular area (diam. c. 38m) is defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth 4m; int H 0.8m; ext H 1.1m) and outer fosse (Wth 0.7m; D 0.4m) SE-W, and by a low scarp (H 0.4m) NE-SE. A later earthen field bank bisects the interior ESE-WNW, off which a second field bank runs perpendicularly NNE across the interior, while a third field bank runs SSW off the ringfort's bank at S. The interior contains a cattle-crush to S of centre. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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