Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In gently undulating, dense, natural woodland enclosed by overgrown rough pasture. Indicated by Westropp (1914-16, 67) as a small enclosure which he labelled ‘J’ on his map ‘Gorteen Group of Forts’. He described it as ‘a defaced cathair’. Depicted as an oval enclosure (c. 50m NW-SE; c. 44m NE-SW) on the 25-inch OS map. The enclosing elements consist of a collapsed drystone wall (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.45m; Wth at top 1.2m; overall Wth 5.4m) which is noted in places, between the vegetation. The interior is largely impenetrable. A later drystone field wall (long-axis ENE-WSW) appears to have been constructed on top of the enclosing elements SE-SW.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-116----_01.jpg From SE. Oblique cross-sectional view of bank at W.
CL035-116----_02.jpg From NW. Interior of monument – impenetrable.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 29 January 2018
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.