What is recorded here

Kilbane's fairy fort is a flat-topped earthen ring nearly forty metres across, marked by a shallow scarp and a partly buried ditch on a green slope beside School House Road. It has watched the neighbourhood grow around it, unchanged while houses and roads took the land the ring did not give up. People may have lived, hidden or simply marked time within that circle before the area became a town. The fort remains a quiet anchor, holding its shape while the world rearranges itself above and around it.

On a gently undulating SW-facing slope, on a small undeveloped greenfield area abutting School House Road and otherwise surrounded by housing. Depicted on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (approx. 43m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE). Monument described in 1996 as a flat-topped circular-shaped area (diam. 40m) defined by a scarp (H 1.15-1.6m) and a partially infilled outer fosse. There is suggestion of a couterscarp (Wth 10m) to N. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 June 2020

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.