What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen fort in low-lying Longford pasture, marked as a fort on the 1837 map and still measurable today. Its thirty-two-metre ring holds a shallow scarp, a deep waterlogged ditch and a southeast entrance, while a modern road cuts cleanly through the western bank. The ditch may have swallowed carts, cattle or careless travellers, and the road may have erased the very barrier the fort was built to keep whole.

In low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and the original entrance was at SE. It is defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m). At the base of the scarp is a deep waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.6m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. From W-N-NNE a modern NE-SW roadway cuts through the rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

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