
What is recorded here
Situated on top of a steep hillock, large modern quarry in are where monument is marked on OS 6-inch map. Ringfort (WM007-081----) 320m to W. Annotated as ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map, and depicted as a circular hachured oval enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. An ASI field report from 1975 described the monument as a denuded ringfort (approx. diam. 20m N-S; 15m E-W) located on top of a steep hillock. This site has been completely levelled and is now the site of a quarry.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
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
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