What is recorded here
Mundellihy holds a faded ringfort where cattle still grind its edges into pasture. The earth bank stands two metres high outside but drops to sixty centimetres inside, forming a shallow circle wide enough for a small house or a dozen people. Its northeast section has nearly vanished while overgrowth carpets the level centre, suggesting the field claimed back what human hands shaped. The fort may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a place where neighbours argued about ownership before forgetting why the circle existed.
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 1.4m; Wth 1.6m). Enclosing element is very indistinct NE->ESE, and remainder heavily eroded by cattle accessing interior. Level interior is partially covered by overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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