What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carn (rathconrath By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carn (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. The monument is described in the 1970s as an oval-shaped area measuring twenty-five metres from east to west and twenty-four metres from north to south. It is enclosed by an inner earth and stone bank, an intervening shallow fosse, and a low outer bank that runs from north through east to southeast. A gap in the inner bank at the east-northeast may represent an entrance, while the bank itself is much disturbed, particularly from southwest through west to west-northwest where it is completely denuded.

Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating, rocky pasture. Monument described in the 1970s as an oval-shaped area (dims. 25m E-W; 24m N-S) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank, a gap in the bank at ENE may represent an entrance. The inner earth and stone bank is much disturbed, particularly from SW-W-WNW where it is completely denuded and a modern stone wall running NNW-SSE is immediately outside it. Elsewhere the bank has remains of internal and external stone facing whereby some of the stones are large and set on edge and some are set upright. There are traces of a shallow fosse which is present all around except at SW, where obscured by the field wall. There is a low outer bank from N-E-SE, which crosses the line of the fosse and intersects the inner bank at S. The surface of the interior is uneven and contains a house site (WM024-126001-) in the centre and there are the remains of two possible house sites adjoining the ringfort bank at NNW and SSE. See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 27 August 2019

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