What is recorded here

No entrance is visible anywhere on the ring, suggesting the fort defies ordinary mapping or human entry. The boundary fuses a built bank with a natural scarp, blending human intention and landscape until neither can be separated. What is missing is the door, not the shape. The circle remains complete while refusing to show how it was entered.

A circular area (max. diam. c. 56m) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 3.5m) except at SW where a scarp forms the enclosing element. Evidence of an external fosse survives from N-E and S-SW. No evidence of original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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