What is recorded here

Mondellihy holds two conjoined rings, one north and one south, where stone-faced banks still rise above the pasture. Westropp witnessed dry stone caps on earthen walls in 1921, but ploughing and time have reduced much of the structure to a low scarp. The site retains its identity through shape and memory rather than grandeur, inviting imagination about the people who lived inside its circles.

In pasture on slight E-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, 8m N of the townland boundary with Gortaganniff, ringfort (LI021-011001----) to the immediate S. Westropp described the conjoined ringforts as following “Mondellihy Rings…They lie north and south and consist of two earthen rings, one stone-faced and capped with dry stone walls’ (Westropp 1921, 183). Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 19m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m) that has been levelled from NE through E to S. Poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth image taken 2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 9 July 20202

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