What is recorded here

Pollduff holds a broken earthen ring on a ridge above a river gorge, marking one of countless ordinary lives lived beside water and marsh. Its southern gap still invites entry, but the western bank has fallen into the valley, surrendering human effort to gravity and time. The surviving curve suggests a home, workshop or refuge rather than a fairy palace, yet the loss warns that even stone and soil must give way when the earth reclaims what people took from it.

Situated on a ridge of high ground running in a N-S direction with a river gorge immediately to the W and marsh land to the E. Sub-circular area (31m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 2m; int. H 0.6m) and outer fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 1m) both of which survive from NE through E to SW. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3.8m) at S. Bank and outer fosse appear to have been destroyed by gorge at W with modern disturbance from N to NE which has destroyed bank and outer fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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