What is recorded here

No visible trace remains above ground in Ardrass Lower, yet the land still holds the shape of a forgotten fort. The oval boundary lies buried beneath the pasture, waiting for rain or roots to reveal its edges. What was built there has vanished from sight but not from the earth, and the field keeps its secret patient and complete.

On a short, gentle, E-facing pasture slope. Visible on aerial photographs (GSI 467, 468) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing an oval area (est. max. diams. c. 70m N-S; c. 40m E-W), but not visible at ground level. The morphology and siting suggest that it may have been a ringfort, some sub-surface remains of which may survive intact. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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