What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Castlenode is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Castlenode, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the bottom of a north-facing slope as a grass-covered, D-shaped area measuring twenty-eight point seven by twenty-six point six metres. An earth and stone bank surrounds three sides, while a three-metre entrance gap opens toward the northeast. A field wall cuts through the western edge, leaving the monument incomplete beyond that line.

At the bottom of a N-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 28.7m WNW-ESE; 26.6m NNE-SSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-5.2m; H 0.2m) NW-E-SW which is best preserved (Wth 3.3m; H 0.5m) SE-SW. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. The monument is cut by a NNE-SSW field wall at W and does not survive W of this feature. A rectangular house-site (RO029-146002-) (int. dims 10.9m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) defined by the base of grass-covered stone walls (Wth 0.5-0.7m; H 0.2m) is c. 50m to the SE. Rath (RO029-076001-) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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