What is recorded here

No fairy fort in the world has been so brutally and knowingly hacked about as this one. The quarry has taken the outer bank on three sides, reduced the ditch to a scar, and left the inner ring suspended above a pit of stolen earth. What remains is a circular wound in the ridge, still overlooking Blackhall Castle, but half its defence structure gone. The land remembers the shape even when the survey no longer can.

A Registered Historic Monument (HM01273). Prominently located at the higher N end of a N-S ridge overlooking Blackhall Castle (KD024-011----) c. 300m to the WSW, and an extensive sand and gravel quarry immediately to the E, S and W. A roughly circular area (diam. 33m) is enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; Wth 2m) with a steep scarp immediately outside, at the base of which a fosse (Wth 6m) and a second, poorly preserved outer bank survive N-E; elsewhere the external bank has been levelled. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 11 June 2012

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