What is recorded here

Crean holds a forgotten ring where human hands shaped earth into a circle before fairy tales claimed it back. The bank and ditch still trace a thirty-six-metre chamber, though farming has flattened much of its edge. People may have lived there, feared there, or simply passed it without knowing what they were walking around.

In pasture, 400m NE of a ringfort (LI031-098----). Monument described by O'Kelly (1944, 51) as a type B earthwork consisting of the following; ‘A circular platform on the edge of which there is a bank. A fosse surrounds the whole. The entrance is on the E. side, where a causeway leads to a break in the bank. The overall diameter is 120’[36m]’. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 17m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from E-S-W-NNW; bank from NE-E, incorporated into post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Curving field boundary at N represents remains of enclosing bank of levelled ringfort which is visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 25 March 2021

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