What is recorded here

Raithin na mBodach, the little Rath of the Churls, is a broad oval platform on a narrow ridge in Lough, County Kilkenny. It has no visible entrance or remaining bank, yet it stands taller at the west edge and overlookes lower land in every direction. A man named Bowe lived there when Carrigan wrote in 1905, suggesting the churls may have been neighbours rather than ghosts. The fort keeps its shape like a forgotten room, waiting for someone to remember what it was for.

On the crest of a narrow ridge in rolling grassland. There are commanding views in all directions across lower lying lands. An ovoid platform (max. dims. 33m N-S; 20m E-W, H 2-3m; H c. 1m, except at W where H is 2-3m) with no visible trace of banks or an original entrance. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 320) refers to it as 'Raheennamuddach - There is a rath in Lough, called Raithín na mBodach, or little Rath of the Churls. A man named Bowe lives at it'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 October 2017

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.