Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilbeg

Situated on SW-facing slope of a ridge running E-W, in pasture, with good views to S, W and NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large roughly circular-shaped earthwork with a rectangular-shaped building abutting to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1977 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 41m ENE-WSW; 36m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp with slight traces of an external fosse only visible from NW-N-NE. No clear entrance feature visible. The monument is fully enclosed by a field fence from NE-E-S-W. At W, NW, N and NNE. There are livestock gaps at W, NW, N and NNE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope with evidence of rock outcrop close to the surface. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019