What is recorded here
Situated on top of a gentle rise, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Within W quadrant of ringfort (WM018-030----) are the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 5.8m ESE-WNW; 4.5m NNE-SSW) defined by a low (H 0.35m) grass-covered earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.8m; base Wth 2.1m) with entrance gap at WNW. A low, straight scarp runs NW-SE from the SE corner.
See attached sketch plan of monument by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 11 January 2019
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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