What is recorded here
On a low natural rise of ground or small hillock located 200m N of the Kinnegad River. A roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 28m WSW-ENE; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a poorly preserved low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.2m) only visible from W-N, elsewhere reduced to a scarp with faint traces of a shallow external fosse (top Wth 5.4m) only visible at S and NW. No entrance feature visible. Monument is not visible on 2005 OSI aerial photograph (www.osi.ie).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 12 August 2013
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
Places near here
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Abandoned Kinnegad CanalWood · 4.2 mi
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