What is recorded here

Half-swallowed by bog and grass, the Mulgeeth ringfort keeps its circular shape on a pasture spur projecting into the Bog of Allen. Its faint banks and shallow ditch mark a rath old enough to predate the first Ordnance Survey maps, yet local names still call it a fairy fort, as if the boundary between human home and mythical ledge had never fully closed.

On the gentle W-facing slope of a low, pasture spur which projects W into the Bog of Allen, with a possible habitation site (KD004-010----) c. 250m to the NE. A poorly preserved circular area (int. diam. 22.5m) is defined by a very faint inner, earthen bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m at NE-1.7m at SW), by a shallow fosse (Wth 2.3m at E-5.8m at S; D 0.2-0.4m) and by a second, faint, outer earthen bank (Wth 1m; int H 0.4m; ext H 0.2m) at E. Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map it is probably a rath. Visible as being overgrown on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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