What is recorded here

No, that is not a small hut for a child. It is a rath, a human fortress old enough to have become a fairy story. The measurements are not decorative: twenty metres across, two banks, and a five-and-a-half-metre ditch between them. That is a defensible place, large enough for a household, a herd, a forge, a kitchen fire and a weapon kept ready. The fairy name does not erase the human shape. It appears because the human shape stopped being obvious, and memory moved the residence elsewhere.

In marshy pasture, near base of gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with wide intervening fosse (Wth 5.7m; D 0.35m). Inner bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) is heavily masked by overgrowth. Outer bank (ext. H 0.3m), surviving N->E and SE->W, is best preserved SE->WSW. It is incorporated into field boundary which kinks around outer edge of fosse W->N. Break in outer bank at E->SE matched roughly by dip in inner bank at ESE. Interior is completely covered by dense vegetation overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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