What is recorded here
On a shelf of a slight S-facing slope on a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.2m N-S; 27.4m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5-5m; Wth of top 1.6-2.3m; int. H 0.1-0.6m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m), with faint traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.1m) ESE-SSW. There is no evidence of an original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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