Fairy fort / ringfort in Mountmurray

Situated on a natural rise in undulating grassland, on the demesne lands of Mount Murray House located 540m to SSE. The tree-lined earthwork visible on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map was located immediately W to the avenue leading up to Mount Murray with gate lodge 115m to N. Lough Owel is visible 320m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. No surface remains of this levelled monument. At the time of the site visit in 1972 the field had been ploughed and all was visible was a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 29.4m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) with remains of a shallow fosse (Wth 8.2m; D 0.3m) from ESE-S-NNW. The interior slopes slightly from WSW-ENE and contains scatters of burnt stone, bone and teeth. This levelled site is visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017