Why this matters
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
What is recorded here
In improved pasture, 75m E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynagranagh. St Bridget’s Well (LI032-111----) lies 120m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 200: AP 4/3611) as a penannular-shaped enclosure defined by an upstanding bank and which is open to S. Levelled monument is visible as a very faint penannular-shaped cropmark (approx. 28m N-S; 24m E-W) from WSW-W-N-E, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 200
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 27 November 2020
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