What is recorded here
Fairy fort / ringfort in Dromloughan North: a 38m banked circle on an east-facing slope, mapped in 1840, gone by 1897. Ploughs or profit erased it, but satellite shadows still hint at its shape. The land keeps what people forget, waiting for eyes sharp enough to read the faint mark.
In pasture on slight E-facing slope with moderate views in all directions, immediately E of townland boundary with Fearoe. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed (approx. diam. 38m) by a bank. Not marked on 1897ed. OS 25-inch map, likely that monument was levelled between the map dates. No surface remains visible. Faint trace of monument visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2020, OSi orthophotos 2005-2012 and Digital Globe orthoimages 2011-2013.
See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/02/2020
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 August 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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