Discover Alone, back to main map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killeen (coshma By)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No trace remains on the ground, though the 1840 map drew a forty-five-metre circle on the south-facing slope beside the disused railway. The earth swallowed the fort before anyone stopped looking for it, leaving only a gap in later charts and a quiet pasture where the boundary once stood. What the ring enclosed has vanished so completely that even the soil refuses to remember its shape.
In pasture on slight S-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, to the immediate W of disused railway. No surface remains visible. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a large sub-circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) and not marked on subsequent editions. No trace of monument on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13 and Google Earth aerial imagery. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 July 2020

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places