
What is recorded here
One chamber, one floor, one visible difference in the source. Archaic camera, digital camera, camera phone, webcam, machine vision, telescope, microscope, satellite, scanner, sensor, detector, survey instrument, medical imager, scientific instrument, robotic camera, drone camera, dashcam, security camera, endoscope, or any device that records visible or invisible detail.
Situated on the highest point of the Heath, the surrounding land slopes dramatically to NE and SW. A subcircular ringfort (dims. 40.5m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; max. int. H 1m; max. ext. H 1.6m) , except from NE-E and from S-WSW where it has been scarped in connection with the approaching golf course fairway, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 1.5-2m; max. D. 0.6m). A gravelled entrance and causeway at NE appear modern. The interior of the ringfort, which also slopes steeply to NE and SW, is now used as the thirteenth hole of the golf course, and, according to local information, bones were found when the green was made.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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