What is recorded here

Marianne and Gearóid climbed the inner bank at Kilshanchoe, their shoes sinking into soft earth beside the causeway. The fort was not a small fairy circle but a vast earthen chamber, wide enough for carts, herds and argument. They walked the full diameter, measuring shadow and grass, while Marianne refused to call it abandoned because the land still held its shape.

On a gentle S-facing pasture slope. A large, fairly well-preserved, sub-circular area (int. dims. L 59m N-S; max Wth 58m E-W) is defined by an overgrown inner earthen bank (Wth 4.8m at S-7.4m at E) NNE-SW which is reduced to a scarp (H 2.5m) elsewhere, by an overgrown fosse (Wth 4.5m at E-7.7m at W), and by a second, outer earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.9m) SW-NW. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at NE. Later field boundaries radiate off the monument at SE and W. Visible as densely overgrown on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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