Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Parcellstown (moygoish By.)

Situated on top of a slight rise, in relatively low-lying pasture, surrounded by gently undulating terrain. This area appears to have been liable to floods prior to drainage in the 1970s. A possible barrow (WM018-076----) lies c. 10m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a much smaller oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1975 as an oval-shaped area (29m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The inner bank is low and rises slightly above the interior but is higher on the exterior. The fosse is wide and shallow. The outer bank is also low and slight. No entrance is recognisable. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 February 2019