What is recorded here

Half-hidden beneath a modern house and a cutting property wall, the Gortnadrehy ringfort still breathes through a faint southern curve and a dark cave mouth at its southwest edge. The northern half has vanished under driveway and garden, but the southern scarps and underground passage remain visible in the pasture. Someone built a complete circular home on this low rise, then later people took it apart for building material or space. The missing half is not empty; it is embedded in the new house, waiting to be recognised.

In pasture, located on a low rise, in an area of undulating terrain. This rath is shown on the 1922 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 22-25m) with a Man-made underground passage (MA048-050002-), marked as ‘cave’, on the perimeter at SW. The rath has been levelled, and is now bisected, slightly N of centre, by an E–W property wall. To S of the wall, in a pasture field, remnants of a levelled scarp can still be discerned curving SE–W, and a surface opening reveals the Man-made underground passage (MA048-050002-). To N of the property wall, no trace of the rath is evident and the location is overlain by a modern house, driveway and garden. There is another rath (MA048-049----) c. 100m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 February 2013

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