What is recorded here
In rich pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. D-shaped area (31m N-S; 31m E-W), enclosed by inner bank (H 0.6m) and external bank (ext. H 1.2m), with well defined intervening fosse (D 1.7m). Fosse interrupted on E by entrance (Wth 2.1m), with causeway.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 164.
Date of upload: 12 January 2015
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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