
What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort carved into a narrow Longford ridge, its thirty-eight-metre circle marked by an irregular scarp and hidden entrance. Large boulders still protrude through the eastern soil like broken teeth, waiting for people brave enough to walk past them. The shallow fosse at the edge suggests human hands shaped the ridge before forgetting its own name.
Straddling a low, narrow E-W ridge in pasture. This circular area (diam. c. 38m) is carved out of the ridge and is defined by an irregular scarp (H 0.5-2m). At the base of the scarp at ESE are traces of a shallow external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.15m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Large boulders protrude from the ground in the E half of the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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