Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Milltown (fartullagh By.)

On a slight rise of ground in gently undulating pasture land. Gallstown House located 890m to the NW. Levelled monument visible on the ground as a cropmark (Wth 3m) of differential vegetation growth defining a roughly circular area (diam. c. 41m N-S; 39.2m E-W). A slight depression visible from S-W marks the outline of the levelled fosse. No other features visible. Recorded as a ringfort in 1956 when it was described as a small ringfort that was possibly modified as a tree-ring due to the presence of tree-stumps along the bank of the ringfort. The ringfort consisted of a circular area (diam. 38m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) only visible at N, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp and outer fosse (Wth 2.4m; ext. D 0.7m) (SMR File). Marked as a ‘Fort’ on the OS Fair Plan parish map of Pass of Kilbride (SMR File). Depicted as an antiquity on the 1818 townland map of Milltown (Boyd Belvedere Maps, WCL/M/BBE/22). Visible as a cropmark on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between 06-07 November 2011. See attached document for image of cropmark visible on Bing Maps at www.bing.com/maps Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 July 2013