What is recorded here

Indicated was a living fort on a Longford rise, not a dead ruin, because people kept shaping its edge and planting trees inside the ring. It may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a small shrine where neighbours argued, worshipped, or buried what they could not afford to lose. The land took it back by changing the shape of the claim: a fort becomes a garden, a garden becomes a field, a field becomes a story told by the mound still visible beneath the grass.

On a rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure planted with trees and designated 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1970 (SMR file) noted that the rath had been reused as a landscape feature. It has since been levelled and its location is marked by a low, poorly defined mound of earth and stone. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

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