What is recorded here

Killaghteen holds a thirty-metre circular fort now buried inside a private garden. The earth bank and outer ditch still mark the southwest edge, but domestic rubbish and tilled soil have erased the rest. People built a defensible ring on level ground, then lived upon it until only a scarped memory remains beneath the flowers.

In garden of private dwelling, on level ground. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been severely altered by incorporation into garden. Defining scarped edge (H 0.75m; Wth 0.9m) with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 1.8m) survives SW->E but otherwise levelled; this shows site was clearly circular (diam. 30m E-W) in plan. Field boundary runs along outer line of fosse WSW->NW. Fosse at W used as dump for domestic rubbish. Interior has been tilled and drained as part of garden. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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