What is recorded here

No fairy fort, no mystery. A human rath: a shallow circular ditch, a low outer bank in places, a raised central area about twenty-one metres across, and a possible entrance gap at the south-east. It stands on a slight rise in Carrowkeel East, partly hidden by gorse, with a field boundary passing along one side. Whatever it was built for, people shaped that ground deliberately and left it behind.

In pasture, located close to the NW boundary of the townland, straddling a rise in undulating terrain; views good but not extensive. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (diam. c. 21m) defined by a scarp (H 1.6m at E, 1m at NNW) outside which it is enclosed at S–NNE by a fosse (Wth 2m) with traces of a possible external bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m) surviving as a low rise, obscured by gorse, at NW–N. The fosse and possible outer bank are not evident on the E side, where there is a natural fall of ground. The interior slopes down markedly from centre to the E, but is almost entirely engulfed in gorse and difficult to inspect. There is a gap (Wth 2.6m) in the scarp at SSE defined on its W side by a low bank that extends across the fosse; it may mark an original entrance. A field fence/townland boundary skirts the W side of the rath, respecting its curve. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 May 2022

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