What is recorded here

Half a meter of soil and stone still holds the memory of a hearth where someone sat, stirred a pot, and watched the rain fill the ditch. The fort gave up its knife, its whorl, and its fire before the machines arrived, then it disappeared into pasture and forgetting. What remains is a shadow on satellite images and a hole in the ground where certainty used to live.

In pasture. A roughly circular enclosure is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, by the 1900 revision the outer bank from NNE-E-S appears to have been removed. A bivallate ringfort (int. diam. c. 23m; overall diam. c. 40) consisting of an earthen bank with a stone core (int. H c. 0.5m; overall Wth c. 2.4m), a waterlogged fosse (Wth c. c. 2-5m; D 0.8m) and an outer bank (ext. H c. 1.2m; overall Wth c. 5.8m). In 1950 the monument was partially archaeologically excavated by Gearóid Ó hIceadha of the OPW prior to its removal as part of Land Project works (OPW correspondence, November 1950). There is a measured plan [in imperial] of the monument showing the excavation cuttings, as well as a profile across the ringfort (ibid.). The excavation consisted of a cutting through the E and S quadrants from the centre of the outwards and a number of other smaller cuttings (ibid.). The finds included a stone-lined hearth, a spindle whorl, iron knife and hones (ibid.). No pottery or bones were found (ibid.). The monument has been levelled, though its outline is visible on satellite imagery. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 June 2020

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