
What is recorded here
Situated on top of a rise, on the E side of a hill, in rough pasture and scrub, with good views to N, E and SE. Ringforts (WM024-101----/105----) lie c. 150m to NW and c. 160m to SE, respectively. Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank and a fosse which are truncated across the W portion by a field wall running NNW-SSE. The bank is substantial from N-E and elsewhere it is low and almost reduced to a scarp. A modern bank encroaches on the ringfort bank at N. There are the slight remains of an outer fosse. A gap (Wth at top 5.39m; basal Wth 2.4m) in the bank at E probably represents the entrance, although there is no visible trace of a causeway. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope with some rock outcrop.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
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.
- What survives
- No visible remains or recorded as destroyed
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