What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cappanrush is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cappanrush, County Westmeath, Ireland. Situated on a low rise in pasture, the site was described in 1973 as a roughly circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse, and an outer bank. The 1977 field report noted that the west sector had been levelled west of a north-south field boundary, while local information indicates the ringfort was levelled in the early 1980s.

Situated on a low rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork (dims. 43m N-S; 45m E-W) cut across the W sector by a field boundary running roughly N-S with a small square-shaped enclosure or structure adjoining the E side, in the NW quadrant of the ringfort. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. A house site (WM038-033001-) is visible in the NW quadrant. The monument is densely overgrown making close examination difficult. According to a field report of 1977, the W sector of the monument has been levelled to W of the field boundary running N-S. According to local information the ringfort was levelled in the early 1980s (pers. comm. Hugh Carey 17/07/1997). Levelled monument is visible today as a vague outline of a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography which abuts a modern house plot to W. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 18 December 2019

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