What is recorded here
Situated on top of a drumlin. A subrectangular wood with rounded corners defined by a field bank is depicted as on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map, and it is known locally as a ‘fort’. This is a subrectangular area (max. dims c. 110m N-S; c. 80m E-W) defined by a field bank with an outer ditch. The interior is wooded and waterlogged. There is no identifiable original entrance. Date of revised upload: 25 July 2017
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO003-049
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jimi Irwin, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- R0025693, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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