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In wet pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope, to the immediate E of a watercourse and to the immediate NE of a townland boundary with Moymore. Not indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a subrectangular-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Described by O’Dwyer (1959, 96) as a ‘low platform’. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised subrectangular-shaped area (dims. 51m NNE-SSW; 32m ESE-WNW) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.7-1.95m; H 1-1.7m) from SW-W-N-E, truncated by a concrete wall (long-axis N-S) from E-ESE-SE and truncated by a public road (long-axis E-W) across the S quadrant. An outer fosse (overall Wth 4.05m; basal Wth 1.4m; Dth 0.45m) is present from W-N-E and is truncated by a linear drain (long-axis N-S) from SW-WSW-W. A raised circular-shaped area (diam. 10m) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.4m) is visible within the SE-quadrant and has been truncated to E by the concrete wall mentioned above. Possible monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped area on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and a sketch plan which was measured and drawn by the ASI in 2008. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 26 September 2020
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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