What is recorded here

Mullaghroe Upper held a forty-metre earthen ring until about 1960, when quarrying and ploughing erased the bank and fosse. The earth swallowed a place that resisted mapping for a century, then vanished in a single generation. What remained was not even a ruin but a faint curve on old paper, a ghost of a boundary drawn by hands no longer living to defend it.

Although not recorded on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, the curving NW-quadrant of a raised area (est. radius c. 40m) is shown on the 1939 Revision, just N of an area of quarrying. By 1972, the feature had been levelled, but slight traces of a fosse survived along the W. According to local information, a bank and fosse here were levelled c. 1960 (SMR file). On the lower slope, near the foot of a short, moderately steep-sided pasture ridge. No visible surface trace of the fosse survives. The site may have been a ringfort. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 October 2011

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