What is recorded here

No map or archive exists for the fort, only grass and memory. It stands forty-five metres from a burial site and one hundred sixty metres from a megalithic tomb, suggesting death and life shared one address. The absent lines on modern charts do not erase the fort; they admit the charts are poor witnesses.

In pasture on the demesne lands of Rockbarton House located 300m to S, 45m NE of the townland boundary with Rockbarton. In the SE quadrant of a field system (LI031-206----), 45m N of prehistoric burial site (LI031-076----) and 160m SE of unclassified megalithic tomb (LI031-074----). Not depicted on OSi maps. Monument described by Ó Ríordáin and Hunt (1942, 42) as follows; ‘Fort 4’, consisting of ‘a large fort with stone banks, about 60 yards [55m] in diameter with what appears to be a house and other features in the interior’. Monument visible as roughly circular shaped area enclosed by a bank with features in the centre on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. The 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map depicts a field boundary running NW-SE and a second field boundary (running ENE-WSW) in the area of the monument. The field boundaries were not shown on the OSi 25-inch map. These field boundaries are visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. A further field boundary, possibly associated with demesne landscaping is visible on the Google Earth orthoimagery intersecting the cashel at NE. See attached location map labelled Site 4 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 22 March 2021

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