
What is recorded here
Situated on a broad gentle rise surrounded by low-lying wet ground. Depicted on the 1837 OF Fair Plan as a sub-circular shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Partially hachured on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map where only the W half of the monument remained upstanding. E half of monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible. Faint cropmark of levelled ringfort barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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