Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Macetown

Situated on the WNW side of a low ridge, in pasture with good views to SSW, W and NNE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1970 as an almost completely ploughed out roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 39.3m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by the remains of a scarp and an external fosse. The levelled scarp (max. H 0.6m) is visible from SSE-S-W-NNW. The outer fosse (approx. Wth 4.8m) is traceable as a cropmark from SSE-S-W-N-E which is defined as an area of differential growth. The original entrance is not recognisable. A modern field fence running NNE-SSW skirts the monument to ESE. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a suboval-shaped cropmark. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 03 April 2019