
What is recorded here
Indicated is a faded fairy fort at the NE end of a Kildare pasture ridge, its thirty-seven-metre circle reduced to a low earthen bank and shallow ditch. It is the kind of place where human urgency collapses into grass and forgetfulness, yet the boundary remains visible enough to suggest that someone once drew a line around the world. The land has spent centuries smoothing that decision, but it never fully erased the shape.
At the NE end of a low NE-SW pasture ridge. A poorly preserved roughly circular area (diam. 37m E-W) is defined by a low overgrown, earthen bank (int H 0.3-0.6m; Wth 1.5m; ext H 1.2m) and shallow outer fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.3-0.5m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 September 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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