What is recorded here

Bog water fills the ditch and rushes still mark the outer bank, while the inner scarps rise no higher than a knee on the steep Clare ridge. The gap at the east may be the entrance they used, but the wet ground has swallowed most of the shape that people built or avoided there.

On the slightly elevated SE-facing slopes of a steep boggy ridge surrounded by boggy grazing with good views from NE to S and with coniferous plantations to the NE, SW and W which limit visibility. Hachured on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. A poorly preserved roughly circular area (est. max. dims. c. 29m E-W; c. 28m N-S) defined by an inner bank which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.2m; max. H 1.5m NW-N) and a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.2-0.4m) visible as a drain from S to W. The fosse is defined by an enclosing bank at ENE and ESE (Wth 2.2-2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) which is reduced to a scarp from NNE to ENE (H 0.6-0.7m). A gap in the bank (Wth 3.5m) where it is best preserved at ENE and ESE may be an original entrance. A second fosse is indicated by rushes growing outside of the bank from NNE to ESE and a broad area in the ENE and from E to SE may be a third enclosing bank although much reduced. The interior of the site (int. dims. 22m N-S; 22m E-W) is sunken (D 0.2-0.4m) and waterlogged and slopes to the NE and E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 30 November 2022

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