Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Wooddown

Situated on the S side of a gentle rise, in good pasture with good views to E, SE and SW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly oval-shaped area (32.5m NNW-SSE; 31.00m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.1m; Wth at top 0.6m; max. Wth 6.5m) is best preserved from S-W-N-NNE and is very fragmentary where it is reduced to a scarp from NNE-E-S. The scarp has been quarried at ESE. The original entrance is not recognisable, although there is a modern gap at NW. The fosse is (Wth at top 3.6m; D 0.15m) best preserved from NW-N-NE and is barely perceptible from ENE-E-SE. Monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as an oval-shaped, tree-lined earthwork. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 June 2019