What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Castlequarter, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a low northeast-southwest ridge and contains a circular grass-covered area roughly thirty-seven metres wide. An earthen bank, low scarp, and fading fosse marks its edge, while another rath lies thirty-five metres south and a second rath sits one hundred and forty metres west-northwest.

At the crest of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) and hedge with traces of an external fosse (at S: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 3.2m; D 0.1-0.2m) E-S (C 24m), and part of a bank at NW. Elsewhere it is defined by a low scarp (H 0.3-0.4m), with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 4.2m; int. D 0.3m; ext. D 0.1m) at N. There is no identifiable original entrance, and a N-S field bank overlies the W edge of the monument. Rath (032-035----) is c. 35m to the S and rath (RO032-033001-) is c. 140m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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