What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Skrine, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a subcircular scrub-covered area on a southwest-facing plateau slope. An overgrown earth and stone bank surrounds the centre, separated by a rounded fosse from an outer bank that survives from east-southeast to west-northwest. A causeway and entrance cut through the banks at the south, while an old field bank abuts the outer edge at the north-northwest.

On a SW-facing slope of a plateau. Subcircular scrub-covered area (dims 43.7m N-S; 40.7m E-W) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 4-7m; int. H 0.25m S-W (downslope) to 0.8m generally; ext. H 0.5m at E to 1.5m generally) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.7-7m; Wth of base 1.1-2.6m; D 0.4-0.9m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.5-4m; ext. H 0.25-0.55m) which survives ESE-W-NNW. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 2.7) and outer (Wth 3m) banks and a causeway (Wth 5.5m) at S. An old field bank (Wth 2.3m; H 0.25m; L 23m) abuts the outer bank at NNW (max. ext. dims 58m N-S; 55m E-W). Cashel (RO041-088001-) is c. 160m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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