What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Creeve (moycashel By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Creeve (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. A 1979 description records a bivallate monument on a slight rise, consisting of a roughly circular area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, a berm, an outer bank, and an outer fosse. The inner bank of earth and stone is wide and low, set on a fairly steep natural scarp from west-southwest through west to west-northwest. An entrance was noted at the south-southwest, and the interior contains uneven ground with stony outcrops.

Situated on top of a slight rise, in gently undulating, pasture. Ringfort (WM024-167----) lies c. 25m to ESE. Bivallate monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, a berm, an outer bank and an outer fosse with entrance at SSW. The inner bank of earth and stone is wide and low and is set on a fairly steep natural scarp from WSW-W-WNW. There are slight remains of a shallow intervening fosse visible from NE-E, outside which is a flat berm varying in width from 4m at N and S to 10m at E. On the outer edge of the berm there is a low outer bank of earth and stone. An outer fosse is visible beyond this from S-SW-W-N-NE. The interior is very uneven with stony outcrops, low rises & shallow depressions. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019

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