What is recorded here

A 53m circular earthwork sits near the top of a gentle NW-facing pasture slope in County Kildare. Its inner bank, shallow outer fosse and second outer bank form a broad ring, while a poached NE gap with revetting stones marks the original entrance. The site is a fairy fort or rath, the kind of place people may have avoided at night but walked past daily.

Near the top of a long and very gentle NW-facing pasture slope. A circular area (int. diam. 53m) is defined by a low, inner earthen bank (Wth 1.7m along S, where altered and hedged as a field boundary, -8.6m at N; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), a shallow outer fosse (Wth 1.5-2.1m; D 0.3-0.7m) SE-SW-NNW, and part of a second, outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.2m) NE-ESE. A heavily poached gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank at NE with revetting stones along its S side is the original entrance, while a second gap (Wth 2.3m) in that bank at ENE is a later feature. A possibly contemporary field boundary (KD013-018002-) abuts the monument at NNW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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