What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Creeve (clonlonan By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Creeve (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1973 record describes this small roughly circular area, thirty-one metres in diameter, as a bivallate monument consisting of an inner earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse, and an outer bank. The inner bank shows disturbance at the north and southeast, where a double bank may result from the robbing of the original structure. The surrounding field boundary runs concurrent to the outer bank from southwest through west to north, east and southeast, while the interior features a south-facing slope and a visible house site in the northwest quadrant.

Situated on a rise, in pasture, with commanding views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a small roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 31m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is of earth and stone and has evidence of disturbance at N and SE. There is a double inner bank at SE which is much lower than the bank which surrounds the remainder of the interior. This double bank may be the result of robbing the original bank of earth and stone. There is a well preserved intervening fosse. The outer bank appears to have been added to when constructing the surrounding field boundary which runs concurrent to it from SW-W-N-E-SE. The outer bank is relatively low from NE-E-S-SW. The interior has a S-facing slope. A house site (WM030-006001-) is visible in the NW quadrant. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019

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