What is recorded here
In pasture, on S-facing slope of Knockfierna Hill. Circular area (29.1m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by inner earthen bank, outer earth-and-stone bank, and intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m). Inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 6.2m), best preserved WSW->NE, lowers at S. Outer bank (ext. H 2.4m), stone faced internally SSW->SW, becomes flat-topped and widens (Wth 2.4m) along N arc. Fosse (D 0.75m), littered with loose stone, becomes flat-bottomed at SW. Causeway entrance at ENE through inner (Wth 4.6m) and outer (Wth 7.4m) banks. Level interior under pasture. Remains of dry-stone field wall abuts outer bank at SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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