Outlined WM003-036---- in Rathcreevagh

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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Described in 1973 as 'Indicated as a circular depression in a plantation on the 1910 edition OS 6-inch map. It appears in fact that there was an enclosure (int. dims. 39m NE-SW; 36m SE-NW) probably a ringfort there. The site is a slight natural rise and around the top of it is a stony zone (Wth 7.6m) with vegetation whose colour is distinguishable from the general colour of the vegetation around it. This presumably represents the site of a bank. No indication as to where the material was moved to. No visible trace of an entrance. The interior slopes slightly from SSW-NNE. No visible feature of significance on it. Thee was a small natural pool of water to the S but this was drained recently. The site is relatively lowlying and almost surrounded by waterlooged land save on the SW where the land is of good pasture which rises gently from the site' (SMR file).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM003-036

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