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 average pasture, located on top of a ridge, at its SW edge where there is a steep fall of ground into the valley of the Gweestion River which is 200m to SW. There are excellent views along the valley, especially to W, and good views also along the spine of the ridge top to N and SE.
Circular platform (38.5m N−S; 29m E−W) defined by a bank/scarp, outside which it is enclosed by a fosse and external bank.
The inner bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.2m) retains a low internal lip on the S arc, and is reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m; Wth slope 2.3m, at N) elsewhere. The fosse (Wth 3m) and external bank (Wth 2.9m; int. 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) are well defined at SSE−NNW. At N−E the fosse is evident as a shallow surface depression and there is no trace of the external bank. At E the fosse terminates at a low rise (L 4m) of earth and large stones. This coincides with a section of the rath scarp at E−SE which is very low and broadly slumped, possibly marking an original entrance.
The interior is flat, and is traverses by relict cultivation ridges on a roughly E−W axis. A very slight N−S stony linear feature (L 5m; Wth 0.6m) extends from the inner face of the bank at SSE into the interior.
Grass cover with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter. There is a rath (MA071-134----) 200m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2021
This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.