What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Cartron Big and Cartron Little stands on a gentle NE-facing slope in County Longford, its 34.9m circular bank still visible despite field boundaries and levelling. The outer fosse has vanished under soil, but the ring remains clear enough to walk. It may have been a home, a marker or a boundary for people long gone. Whatever it was, the land still holds its shape.

On a gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34.9m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone that has been modified from S-W-N where it is incorporated into a field boundary. Elsewhere it has been levelled but its outline (Wth 3.4m) is still identifiable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded slight traces of a shallow external fosse. This has since been infilled and, again, only its outline (Wth 3.2m) is identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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