What is recorded here
Located on a slight rise in a flat, low-lying landscape with the N-S River Blackwater c. 600m to the E and the sea-shore c. 900m to the SE. This is a flat topped but overgrown mound (diam. of top 17m; diam. of base 28m; H 4m) defined by the remains of a fosse (Wth of top 11-13m; D c. 0.4m), with the remains of a possible triangular bailey (dims. 30m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) just to the NW.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX033-006
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Andrewmc, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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