What is recorded here
Magic may have built the fort, but people lived there. They went in and out the gap, tended the yard, and left it marked on the land.
In level pasture. A raised roughly oval area (25m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.6m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2-4m; D 0.15-0.4m). The latter is not visible from WSW-SW-W where it is bordered by a modern NW-SE field boundary. The rath is divided into unequal portions by a NE-SW field bank and trench. The larger portion, to the SE, has been almost totally levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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