What is recorded here
No visible trace remains on the open ground, yet a hidden oval enclosure still holds its shape beneath the soil of Curraghwalls. Two fosses circle a narrow entrance gap at the east, waiting for someone to remember the way in. The fairies may have built it, or people may have built it and handed it to legend, but the distinction matters less than the shape, which survived every claim to forget it.
Located towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. An oval enclosure (int. dims c. 28m ENE-WSW; c. 20m NNW-SSE) is defined by two fosses (ext. dims c. 38m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. There is an entrance gap through the inner (Wth c. 1.5m) and outer (Wth c. 3m) fosses at ENE. The rath is overlain be the cropmarks of field drains associated with the field system (ME033-067001-). The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 February 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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