Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Creggstown

Situated on a rise, in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 42m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW). Monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by two banks with a wide intervening space. The banks are best preserved ESE-S-W-WNW and are disturbed by quarrying in places. The original entrance is not clearly visible. The NNE quadrant of the monument is truncated by a road running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019