What is recorded here

Indicated is a large, poorly preserved fairy fort at the bottom of a gentle Kildare slope, overlooking the Slate River two hundred metres south. Its low earthen bank and shallow fosse have been recut into field drains and boundaries, while livestock have poached the western interior. The central area remains level and distinct, suggesting the ring still shapes the land even though its original edges have blurred into ordinary farming.

At the bottom of a low, gentle, S-facing pasture slope overlooking the SW-flowing Slate River c. 200m to the S. A large, poorly preserved, sub-circular area (int. diams. 48m N-S; 45m E-W) is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int H 0.4m; ext H1-1.7m) SE-SW-NNW, which is hedged as a field boundary, and by a shallow outer fosse (Wth 1-2.5m; D 0.2-1.1m). The fosse is recut as a later field drain outside the bank and later field banks radiate off the monument at SE and NW. The interior is heavily poached by livestock at W and rises gently towards a level sub-circular, central area (diams. 16m E-W; 13 m N-S). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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