What is recorded here
Kilrodane holds a small earthen ring on an east-facing slope, preserving a scarped edge and curved bank around an oval pasture. The gate still opens onto a raised track, inviting entry into a space where human hands shaped the land long before modern fields. Fairy fort is the local name, but the structure is a human making: a boundary, a threshold, a place for living or excluding.
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Oval area (28m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.95m; Wth 6m) NE->SSW, and enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.2m) SSW->NNW, and by slightly curving field boundary probably incorporating bank NNW->NNE. Interior is under pasture and slopes gently down to E. Opening, with gate, through bank at NNW leading onto slightly raised trackway (Wth 4.1m) which crosses N edge of enclosure on E-W axis. Field boundaries, not shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map, abut bank at SSW and W.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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