What is recorded here

Four centuries of cattle traffic have worn the eastern entrance into a smooth gap, yet the round-topped bank still stands between fertile pasture and a marshy estuary. The fort shares its narrow ridge with a larger bivallate neighbour, suggesting a small cluster of homes rather than a lonely outpost. People may have herded animals through the southern gaps or watched the water from the higher central ground, but the earth has kept their shape intact while forgetting their names.

On the E end of a short ridge in fertile pasture, S of a marshy estuary with good views all around. A subcircular enclosure (diam. 23.25m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a round-topped earth and gravel bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.2-0.9m; ext. H 0.5-1.35m) from NNE to NNW. At N it has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m). There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.9m) at ESE with smaller cattle gaps at S and WSW. A fair amount of cattle poaching is evident along the NW and SW sectors as well as at the ESE entrance. The interior is slightly higher in the centre than at the perimeter and slopes down to the N. A band of rushes around the perimeter at S noted on a field inspection in 1998 is only now evident at SW. A bivallate rath (CL015-092----) lies 45m to the W on the same ridge. The following images have been uploaded: CL015-093----_01.jpg View from W showing cattle poaching. CL015-093----_02.jpg View from E with bivallate rath (CL015-092----) in the background. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 November 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1987).

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