What is recorded here

Thirty metres across and half-swallowed by roads, the rath still stands at the junction of two roads in Ballyvaughan valley. Its earthen bank and scarp mark a circular space where a small hollow lies west of centre, perhaps a doorway or perhaps only a depression. The fort has watched traffic pass since at least the 1840 map, losing edges to construction but keeping its shape in the memory of the land.

On slightly elevated land and at the juncture of two roads in Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. List as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A partially destroyed rath (est. diam. c. 30m) defined from NNE to ENE by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) and from W to NNE by a scarp (H 0.8m). From E to SW road construction has probably removed its enclosing elements and from SW to W it is too overgrown to examine. There is a slight circular hollow (diam. 2.5m) W of centre but no definite evidence of a Man-made underground passage. A paved trackway skirts the external perimeter from NW to NE, and there are steps and a shed immediately outside the E sector. Another rath (CL005-043----) is located c. 130m to the N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 16 February 2022

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