Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilgawny

Situated on the summit of a broad hill, in undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure truncated by a trackway and a field boundary at N and E, respectively. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure, indicating that the shape of the enclosure may have been modified between the two editions of the map. Described in 1980 as a roughly rectangular-shaped area (34.5m E-W; 32.5m N-S) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone, with no entrance feature or external fosse visible. The bank is best preserved from NE-S where it has a curvilinear form. It is less substantial where it is linear in form along the W half of the S-side, the W and N sides. There are the remains of internal stone facing at S and SSW. There are a number of disturbance gaps. The interior has an ENE-facing slope and has old cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW. Similar cultivation ridges running NNE-SSW can be seen in the vicinity of the monument to N. An old roadway runs NW-SE outside the bank at NE and a field bank runs N-S, just outside the bank to E. A preservation order was placed on this monument on the 24/04/1987 (SMR File). Monument visible today as a roughly rectangular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2018