What is recorded here

Rathreagh Beg holds a twenty-metre earthen ring where cattle still grind its banks into the soil. People dumped heavy boulders along the southern arc, perhaps to keep those same animals out or to mark the boundary for neighbours. The fairies keep the level interior, waiting for humans to stop believing the thorns and loose stones are merely farm debris.

In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Sub-circular area (22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with an external fosse. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.05m) is eroded by cattle especially WSW->NNW, N->NE and at ESE. Large boulders have been dumped on top of bank especially along S arc. Fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.4m) evident all round though very shallow E->SE. Level interior is littered with lose stones; thorn bushes grow around perimeter which is otherwise under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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