What is recorded here

Half-hidden in pasture near Dollas Upper, Hachured is a lost ringfort whose earthen bank still marks the edge of modern fields. The fort may have stood for centuries before ploughs and lanes cut through it, yet its ghost remains visible in the shape of the land. It is the kind of place where human life happened long before records, and the earth still holds the outline of that forgotten activity.

On a low ridge in pasture 360m NE of the townland boundary with Dollas Upper. The W, S and SE side of the site is incorporated in modern field boundaries. A series of archaeological excavations on the ‘Bord Gáis Éireann's Pipeline to the West’ were conducted 600m to SW (Grogan et al. 2007). The site is depicted as a circular embanked fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as an earthwork (int. diam. c. 50m N-S; 46m E-W) surrounded by a fosse (Wth. 8m) on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The ringfort bank appears to partially survive in the modern field boundary visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 visible from SE-S-W-NW and has been levelled elsewhere. A farm lane runs in the fosse on the S side of the possible ringfort. The monument is visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 28 September 2020

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