
What is recorded here
Situated atop low natural hillock 130m E of Castletown Cottage. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Present remains consist of a natural oval-shaped hillock (approx. dims. 26m E-W; 20m N-S) the base of which is revetted by a low modern dry-stone wall. The low hill has been planted with trees and has the appearance of a post-1700 designed landscape feature associated with nearby Castletown Cottage. Possibly a ringfort modified as a tree-ring in the post 1700 period.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2016
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Castletown Houseworker's house · 156 yd
CastleCastle, motte · 277 yd
Saint Michael's Catholic Churchchurch/chapel · 694 yd
Site of CastleCastle, unclassified · 863 yd
MullaghmeenMountain / peak · 1.7 mi
Mullaghmeen White WalkWalking route · 1.9 mi
Rock of CurryCliff · 1.9 mi
Mullaghmeen Red WalkWalking route · 2.1 mi
Fox CovertForest · 2.3 miOther information
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