What is recorded here

Fairy fort and stone ringfort in Newtown (rathdown By.) stand on a south-facing slope above Glencullen village, where furze still smothers the remains of human occupation. The circular enclosure measures twenty-three metres across, with a drystone wall one and a half metres thick and an external ditch two metres wide. A curving internal wall divides the space into two compartments, while hut sites crowd the northern half and a five-metre entrance opens toward the southeast. Field walls radiate from the west and southeast, suggesting this was never an isolated stronghold but a lived-in landscape of boundaries, pasture and memory.

Situated on a S-facing, furze-covered slope above Glencullen village. A ringfort comprising of a circular sunken area (int. diam.23m) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.6m) which rises to three courses and an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5m). The interior is divided into two compartments by a curving wall. There are furze-covered hut sites in the N half. The entrance (Wth 5m) is in the SE. A series of curving field walls radiate from the W and SE of site (Herity 2001, 22-4). Recent aerial coverage of the area (OS 10:4735) shows a system of irregular fields extending into both the remaining unimproved pasture onthe hill and the improved pasture N of the cashel. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

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