What is recorded here
Situated on a shelf that is on a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking Graghlone or Beagh Lough, an oval lake (dims c. 630m N-S; c. 360m E-W), the W shore of which is c. 150m distant. It is depicted as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NW-SE: c. 25m NE-SW) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A fragment of an earthen bank (Wth of base 2.75m; Wth of top 0.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1m) with some bushes survives at NW, but it is reduced to a scarp at NE (H 1.1m) (Chord 31m). There is no visible fosse and the rest of the perimeter cannot be traced.
Situated on a shelf that is on a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking Graghlone or Beagh Lough, an oval lake (dims c. 630m N-S; c. 360m E-W), the W shore of which is c. 150m distant. It is depicted as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NW-SE: c. 25m NE-SW) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A fragment of an earthen bank (Wth of base 2.75m; Wth of top 0.8m;…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO030-019
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- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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