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Hachured, Crow Field

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Crow Field holds a vanished ringfort where Hachured and a second fort once stood close together. The land has been farmed flat, but the name and buried line suggest people lived there before the soil was taken.
In improved pasture 45m W of large enclosure (LI039-067----). Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure in field annotated ‘Crow Field’. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a bank from SE-W-N reduced to a scarp elsewhere with an outer fosse. Surveyed by Henry A. Wheeler in 1970 prior to land reclamation works and described as poorly preserved monument consisting of a slight raised circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank (ext. H c. 3' /0.9m; int. H. 0.1m) only visible from S-W with external wet fosse (Wth 6-8 ft [1.8-2.4m]; 2 ft [0.6m] deep) (SMR Field Report 27/05/1970). Westropp (1916-17, 21) refers to ‘two conjoined and two very close’ forts in Clogher-East. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 shows N quadrant of levelled site now occupied by farmyard buildings and transected at E by farm track running NW-SE. Partial outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 May 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 305/33 on 13/09/2002. 320/3 on 05/10/2002. 372/20 on 10/05/2003.

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