What is recorded here
Situated in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and and depicted as a D-shaped enclosure with the straight side to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork modified by linear field boundaries to S and W. M Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible today as a faint semicircular-shaped cropmark 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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