What is recorded here

Graigoor holds two ringforts barely ten metres apart, as if people refused to leave the first hole empty. The larger circle keeps its double banks and hidden doorway, while the smaller one waits beside it like a forgotten backup plan. Together they suggest a place where residence, reinvention and memory kept returning to the same small hill.

Atop low hill, in area covered with trees and scrub but surrounded by pasture fields on all sides. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by two concentric banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.35m). Inner earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2.1m), best preserved at NNW, has traces of stone facing along inner face. Gap in bank at ENE (Wth 2.5m). Outer bank (ext. H 0.65m), best preserved NW->NE, is stone-faced where incorporated into field boundary system NE->SSE and SW->NW. To NNW of outer bank, 6.6m distant, is a fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.6m) with slightly curved earthen bank (ext. H 1.2m) along its outer edge spanning distance between two field boundaries WNW->NNE. This fosse has traces of low stone kerbing along inner edge. Interior, covered with dense vegetation overgrowth, is only accessible at verge N->SSW. Another ringfort lies 10.5m to S (LI019-20001-). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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