What is recorded here

Harristown keeps an unmarked ringfort, the kind of place where human hands built a circle and legend took it over. The field may have held a home, a shrine or a boundary marker before memory thinned. People may have lived inside the bank, watched the road or buried what they lost. The fort still stands as a reminder that ordinary ground can hide an entire lifetime.

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.