What is recorded here

Huntstown held a circular earthen ringfort with an outer ditch and inner bank before Land Project works removed it in the 1950s. The surviving quadrant carried thorn trees and showed digging marks, suggesting people still lived beside or took from its ridge. What looked like a fairy fort may have been an ordinary home, its boundary erased only after resisting change for centuries.

Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 50m NW-SE; c. 17m NE-SW) with a field boundary running NW-SE along the W side, however, this may represent only the E portion of the original enclosure. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1900 revision. In 1951 it is described as, 'the N.E. quadrant of a circular earthen ringfort with outer ditch and inner bank. The latter carried a relatively heavy growth of thorn trees and there were indications that it had been dug in places' (NMI Correspondence files, 3 April 1951). The moment was removed in the 1950s as part of the Land Project works (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 July 2020

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