What is recorded here
Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 38m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) defined by a townland boundary along the straight side to NW. Monument is visible as a tree-lined, scrub-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 November 2019
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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