What is recorded here

Fairy fort and human rath share one circular breath in Kilkenny grassland. The wide bank, shallow fosse and south-east entrance still draw a line around life itself. People may have lived there, farmed there or kept flame there before records began. The fairies may have taken the same shape later, wearing the human outline like a glove.

In rolling grassland, with a modern tree plantation to the NE delimiting the extent of the monument in that sector. Identified as an upstanding enclosure on an aerial photograph (GSI S481, 1973-3). A roughly circular area (int. dims. 50m E-W; 42m N-S) enclosed by a low wide bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1-1.5m; Wth at crest 4m; overall Wth 8.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 4.2m) at SSE with a causeway (L 3m; Wth 4.2m) over the fosse. An E-W field boundary, indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS map and the 1945-6 revision, bisects the interior. A rectangular platform (L 5m E-W; Wth 2m N-S; H 0.2m) in the N portion may represent a house site (KK019-016001-). A circular platform (diam. 3.2m; H 0.2m) occurs immediately N of the bisecting field boundary. The fosse at NE has been recut as a drain. On Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 21 September 2020) a farm trackway appears to have been constructed around the outer edge of the enclosure (SE-W-NW). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 21 September 2020

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