What is recorded here
Mortals may have gone through the causeway gap or dropped outside it, yet the fort still belongs to the fairies. It circles the Longford slope like a marble ring, waiting for music before it shows itself.
On a gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 35.8m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 0.45m max.) with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 0.9m) and what may be the outline of a levelled outer bank (Wth c. 3m). From SSW-W-NW the circuit and morphology of the bank and fosse have been altered where they have been incorporated into modern linear field boundaries. A break (Wth 4.1m) in the bank at SE 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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