What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moneen is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moneen, County Westmeath, Ireland. Situated on a very slight rise in low-lying rough, wet pasture, the site was described in 1973 as a fairly circular-shaped area measuring thirty-four metres north to south and thirty-two metres east to west, enclosed by a low bank and shallow external fosse. The monument was depicted on the revised 1910 edition Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork cut by a trackway running north to south across the eastern sector.

Situated on a very slight rise, in low-lying rough, wet pasture, with restricted views to N and S. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork cut by a trackway running N-S across the E sector. Monument described in 1973 as a fairly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by a low bank and shallow external fosse best preserved where it is relatively deep from NE-E-SE and is incorporated into part of the field boundary. The interior has the remains of cultivation ridges running E-W and a trackway running N-S cuts across the E sector. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

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