What is recorded here

Dunbell Big is a circular earthwork with a boulder-lined entrance on a Kilkenny hillock. People quarried gravel from beside it for decades, changing the land but leaving the ring visible. The fairies may have watched the carts leave with their stones, amused that humans believed they owned what the land had kept hidden.

On the NW side of a hillock, in undulating terrain. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a small crescent-shaped gravel pit is indicated at the base of the enclosure from S to NW. On the 1900 revision the quarry been enlarged, running from the SE to the NNE sector, curving externally. A roughly circular flat area (diam. 34m E-W) enclosed by a gravelly bank. The interior slopes slightly from WSW-ENE. There is a boulder-lined entrance (Wth 3m) in the E sector. The bank is slightly defaced on the E side. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2020

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