What is recorded here
Bogtown holds a forgotten circular fort thirty-five metres wide, its shallow ditch still drawing moisture from the soil long after the main wall vanished. Anthony Murphy first identified the ghostly ring, joining it to a larger enclosure nearby on the flat Louth landscape. The fairies may have taken the stones, but the earth remembered the shape, revealing itself only when drought or rain changed the colour of the field.
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible on Google Images (27/06/2019). The large enclosure (LH014-095----) is c. 100m to the WSW. The rath was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 November 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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