What is recorded here

Moatfarrell holds a wide low bank of earth and stone on a prominent hillock, marking a large enclosed area that people shaped long before modern fields. The bank still stands although a roadway now skirts it and a narrow break at the southeast may have been its entrance. It is not a grand ruin but a changed boundary, preserving the scale of human occupation beneath ordinary pasture.

On a low but prominent hillock in pasture. A large raised subrectangular area (83.1m ENE-WSW; 61.9m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.9m; H 0.4m max.), which has been substantially modified and incorporated into a field boundary. A report in 1977 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse, it has since been infilled. From ENE-E-ESE a roadway skirts the monument. A break (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at SE may mark the original entrance. The ground level of the interior rises appreciably towards the centre of the monument. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 February 2012

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