What is recorded here
Situated on a low rise in pasture with moderate views of the surrounding landscape. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a circular-shaped tree-lined enclosure to NW of Ardmore House. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined enclosure (approx. dims. 62m N-S; 63m E-W). Levelled monument described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. Faint curvilinear cropmark of levelled enclosure barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Possible ringfort or tree-ring on the demesne lands of Ardmore House.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM019-078
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Aerobug/Grace, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Copper1993, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Brian Shaw, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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