Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Creeve (clonlonan By.)

Situated on a rise, in wet pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 45m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone and a possible external fosse. The bank is best preserved from SE-S-SW and is reduced to a scarp from SW-W-NW. The remains of a potential fosse are visible from NW-N-NE, however it may be a ditch associated with an old field boundary which runs through the adjoining field. There is a possible entrance at E. The interior is quite uneven and rises gently from the perimeter towards the centre, where there are some slight undulations. The remains of cultivation ridges run E-W across the interior. Monument is visible today as a partially tree-lined suboval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019