Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Martinstown (corkaree By.)

Situated on a SE sloping ridge in grassland with good views from S-W. Ringfort (WM012-056---) 160m to NE. A large circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 45m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank and shallow external fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. The enclosing bank is best preserved from NE-E, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. From SE-S-WSW it has been incorporated into a field fence. The interior slopes generally from NW-SE, and contains faint traces of NE-SW running cultivation ridges. Digital Globe aerial photograph of the monument taken November 2011 indicates that enclosing bank now only survives from SSE-S-W, elsewhere it has been levelled. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 February 2018