What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy rings, but human made. Gorteen holds a true earthen ringfort, recorded by Westropp in 1914, set on a gentle east-facing slope beside two other forts. Its bank and scarp still mark a small enclosed life, though a farm road has cut through one edge and pasture has softened the rest. To walk its circle is to measure how little remains and how much still resists forgetting.

On a very gentle E-facing slope, in improved pasture. Westropp (1914-16, 67), described this monument as an ‘earthen fort’. A roughly circular area (28m WNW-ESE; 26m NNE-SSW) defined by a bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m; Wth at top 0.75m; overall Wth 3.25m) ENE-S and W-WNW and by a scarp (Wth 3.9m; H 0.55m) WNW-ENE. The enclosing elements are truncated by a farm road (long-axis NW-SE) across the SW sector. There is no obvious entrance or fosse. The interior is generally level and featureless. Ringfort (CL035-104----) is c. 62m to S and ringfort (CL035-101----) is c. 115m to W. The following images have been uploaded: CL035-105----_01.jpg From ESE. Cross sectional view of scarp at NNE. CL035-105----_02.jpg From ENE. Cross sectional view of bank at SSE. CL035-105----_03.jpg From N. General view of monument (2m rod either side). Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 April 2018

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