What is recorded here
Three house plots now cover the suboval earthworks, but the fort still breathes beneath their gardens. It faced west on a gentle slope, wide enough for a small community or a dangerous game, before Golf Links Road cut across its eastern edge. The fairies likely watched the surveyors draw its lines in 1938, knowing human houses would soon erase what moonlight had preserved.
On a gentle W-facing slope, now occupied by three house plots and abutting Golf Links Road and Castletroy Golf Course to E. Depicted on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped area (approx. 60m NE-SW; 59m NW-SE). No longer visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/05/2004 and Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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