Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Curraghmore

Situated on top of a natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views to E, S, W and NW and overlooked by higher ground to N and NNE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map as an irregular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a much disturbed subcircular-shaped area (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank. The bank is steep on the exterior and is best preserved from E-SSE and from W-WNW. The original entrance is not recognisable. A hole has been quarried into the perimeter at S. A modern curvilinear bank with a modern trench on its interior has been made against the inner face of the bank from S-WSW and has been straightened at WSW where it traverses the exterior of the bank. There is a wide shallow depression at the foot of the scarp from WSW-W-NNW which may represent a partly silted fosse, however it connects to the trench mentioned and may be modern. The perimeter is also disturbed from NNW-N-ENE where it is replaced by a modern field bank. A steep modern field fence running N-S intersects the bank at ESE. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope and a roughly circular depression (approx. diam. 4.5m) near the centre. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a roughly oval-shaped tree-covered earthwork. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 June 2019