What is recorded here

Rathnagreany is a 150-foot earthen ringfort on a sharp knoll above the Camoge River, marked by a sloping causeway and a broken bank. It is called Rath na Gréine, which means fort of the sun, suggesting the place was built to catch light rather than hide from it. The stone facing has mostly vanished, but the earth still holds its shape, waiting for someone to walk the causeway and remember why the sun mattered there.

Ringfort described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is an earthen platform on the edge of which there is a bank. The latter seems to have been faced on the inside with stone, but little of this facing now remains. The whole is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance was on the side where a sloping causeway leads across the fosse to a break in the bank. The greatest height of the latter over the fosse bottom is 10' [3m] and the overall diameter is 150' [45m]. The fort, which is called Rath na Gréine on the O.S map, is situated on a sharply rising knoll on the bank of the Camoge River' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 222). The outline of the monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 February 2020

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