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Situated on a high prominent hill in grassland on the demesne lands of Mount Murray overlooking Lough Owel 140m to E. Mount Murray house located 375m to NNW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular enclosure and annotated ‘fort’. No surface remains visible of this levelled monument. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 19m E-W) enclosed by a light-coloured band of vegetation (Wth 2.9m) marks the site of the levelled monument. The interior has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run N-S. There is a small depression W of centre which along with L-shaped vegetation growth may suggest the presence of a souterrain. This possible ringfort was located at NE end of a tree plantation on the demesne lands of Mount Murray and it is likely that the monument may have been reused as a landscape feature. Alternatively the earthwork may have been built as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 August 2017
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