What is recorded here

Carrownlacka holds a faded semi-circular fort where a thick stone wall once stood before people took the stones and gravel from inside. The earth still keeps a shallow scar, a hidden passage, and a worn bullaun stone, while local memory says bones lay exposed when the wall fell. That is a fort that has been unpacked, not lost, and the field still remembers the shape of what was removed.

In average pasture, broken by rock outcropping, with rising ground rises to N. A farmstead is located 50m to SSW. According to local tradition there was a ‘fort’ at this location. A very slightly raised, semi-circular area (30m E−W; 16m N−S) can be discerned which corresponds with a sub-rectangular area shown on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. It is defined on the curving side E−W by a slight scarp and bordered on the straight side at N by a WNW–ESE field wall. There is no visible trace of a continuation to N of the field wall. According to local information, it was originally enclosed by a ‘thick stone wall’; when the walls were removed, sand and gravel was extracted from this area, and bones were also exposed. The bones may have come from burials (MA073-045004-), which according to tradition were located here. Slight remnants of another scarp curving in a shallow arc (L 30m E–W) are evident 18m to S, corresponding with a roughly semi-circular area shown on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. A bullaun stone (MA073-045003-) is located on the SE edge of this scarp. A Man-made underground passage is located c. 15m N of this scarp and 10m to W of the northern scarp. According local information, fragments of iron slag were found in this field. A possible enclosure (MA073-046001-) and a bullaun stone (MA073-046002-) are located 50m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2021

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.