What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Glenmore (castlereagh By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Glenmore (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a north-south esker ridge where quarrying removed parts to the north, east and south. A six-metre arc of bank remains at the southwest edge of a thirty-metre circular enclosure, while a field wall crosses the southern section and quarry spoil covers the interior.
On a N-S esker ridge which has been quarried to N, E and S of the site. An arc (C 6m) of bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.9m) survives at SW with a scarp S-SW of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), the interior of which has been damaged by quarrying or obscured by spoil. A NW-SE field wall overlies the S part of the site.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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