What is recorded here
Ranahan’s earthen ringfort vanished beneath the pasture, its thirty-metre circle erased from the north-facing slope. The 1841 map still draws the embankment, but modern fields have swallowed the boundary stones and deleted the fort’s shadow. What remains is a absence shaped like a room, waiting for someone to remember the weight of its soil.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. Field boundaries immediately to S and W have also been removed. No trace of monument evident when inspected.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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