What is recorded here

Big Fort is an earthen ringfort on a low hillock in County Longford, its oval bank still standing beside a shallow external ditch. Two narrow breaks face one another across the grass, suggesting entrances for people, animals or carts long before the modern field wall appeared. The earth has been worn but not erased, preserving the shape of a lived place rather than a dead monument.

On a low but prominent hillock in pasture. A raised oval area (43.2m WNW-ESE; 30.7m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial, although partially denuded, bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.8m; H 1.1-1.7m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 6.1m; D 1.1m). At the outer lip of the fosse from ESE-SE-S are fragmentary remains of a modern drystone-built field wall. Either of two narrow breaks in bank, at ENE (Wth 1.9m) and at WSW (1.6m), with accompanying causeways may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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