What is recorded here

Wolfestown holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a steep pasture ridge, marked more by quarry scars than ancient pride. The bank has been cut back and dumped again until it resembles a forgotten boundary rather than a fortress. Yet the circle remains visible enough to stop a walker, suggesting that even a damaged rath keeps its shape when people stop measuring it.

On a short, moderately steep-sided pasture ridge (WNW-ESE) with an extensive sand/gravel quarry c. 50m to the ENE. A circular area (diam. 30m) is defined by a generally low earthen bank (int. H 0.1-0.6m; Wth 0.8-1.9m; ext H 0.6-2.1m) S-NW-SE which is reduced to a low scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. The enclosing bank is best preserved SSW-W-NW where it is hedged and reused as a field boundary. There is no visible surface trace of a fosse. An arc of spoil and large stones (L 20m; Wth 5m) has been dumped against the enclosing bank at NE. The interior has been partially dug out, leaving an L-shaped depression (L 15m SW-NE; L 12.5m WNW-ESE; Wth 7m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 July 2012

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