What is recorded here
Situated on SSE facing slope of prominent rise in grassland with fairly good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM012-118---) 350m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair plan map as an oval shaped earthwork with its long axis N-S, annotated ‘fort’. Poorly preserved monument on which the N half has been levelled as depicted on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Present remains consist of a semi-circular area defined by a curving bank visible from E-S-NW (approx. diam. 20m E-W) and wide flat bottomed external fosse as depicted on the 25-inch OS map. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Situated on SSE facing slope of prominent rise in grassland with fairly good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM012-118---) 350m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair plan map as an oval shaped earthwork with its long axis N-S, annotated ‘fort’. Poorly preserved monument on which the N half has been levelled as depicted on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Present remains consist of a semi-circular area…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM012-121
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Angela Hawkesworth Smyth, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- fr:Gavigan:Knockdrin_a.jpg/Knockdrin_a.jpg, Wikimedia Commons · GFDL
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Brian Shaw, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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