What is recorded here
In pasture, on S-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Roughly circular area (32m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 2.05m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved NW->ENE. Wall has vertical external face containing large blocks of limestone, stones heaped against inner face give slumped profile. Wall much collapsed along N arc with gap (Wth 2.25m) at E. Interior, sloping down to the S, is covered by cultivation ridges on E-W axis.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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