Hachured (1924). — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Hachured is a fairy fort, an earthen ringfort with a level circular interior thirty-two metres across, bounded by a bank and a wide fosse on the outskirts of Croom. Modern houses line Church Road behind it, while scrub and trees still crowd the ancient earthworks. The fort has watched the pasture change from open field to residential edge, keeping its shape through mapping, inspection and forgotten decades. It is the kind of place where ordinary life still passes within metres of something older, larger and less explainable.

On flat pasture to the rear of a row of modern houses built along Church Road (R516) on the outskirts of Croom, 500m ENE of the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Located 100m N of a possible ditch-barrow (LI030-022----) and 125m NNE of a ringfort (LI030-021----). The site is depicted as an embanked fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is later depicted as an enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) surrounded by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The ringfort is visible and densely covered in scrub vegetation on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the OPW in 1957, the ringfort consisted of a level circular raised area (int. diam. c. 32m) defined by an external bank and fosse. The bank (Wth 4.5m; H int. 0.6m; ext. 1.5m) defines the interior of the site on the SE side of the ringfort. The fosse (Wth 4.5m; D int. 1.5m; ext. 0.85m) surrounds the site on all sides with the exception of an entrance causeway (Wth c. 9m) on the E (SMR File). The site is tree covered on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009 and 28/06/2018. See attached OPW Plan, Section and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 29 September 2020

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