
What is recorded here
Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope overlooking Blackbrink Bay on Lough Ree, c. 800m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.5m NNE-SSW; 30m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank with scrub which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.85m) SE-W but reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 2.7m; ext. D 0.5m) at WNW. Raths (RO042-110----; RO042-111001-; RO042-111----) are c. 160m, 70m and 100m to the SW, SE and ESE respectively.
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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