What is recorded here
Situated on a low NNW-SSE ridge. It is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) backing onto a NE-SW building at SE on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’, and it is depicted as a tear-shaped enclosure on the 1908 edition. No archaeological feature is visible on any aerial images in pasture, apart from an oblong bank (L c. 15m NE-SW) at SE.
Situated on a low NNW-SSE ridge. It is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) backing onto a NE-SW building at SE on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’, and it is depicted as a tear-shaped enclosure on the 1908 edition. No archaeological feature is visible on any aerial images in pasture, apart from an oblong bank (L c. 15m…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME004-011
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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