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Partially hachured — Kilpatrick (rathconrath By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Partially hachured — Kilpatrick (rathconrath By.)
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Situated on the NW side of a high ridge, in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork which has been truncated from SW-W-N by a townland boundary running NNE-SSW. Enclosing element of monument is not depicted on NW side of townland boundary. Monument intersected at SW by a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument described in the late 1970s as a partially levelled semicircular-shaped area (approx. dims. 40m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m; basal Wth 4.6m; Wth at top 0.7m) visible from N-E and levelled from E-S. A field fence running NW-SE across the SW quadrant incorporates the perimeter from S-SW. The monument is truncated at NW by a modern field fence running NE-SW. There is no evidence of the enclosing element of the monument on NW side of this boundary. There are vague traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE across the NE half of the interior. Monument is visible as a roughly D-shaped cropmark defined by a light brown-green area of differential growth on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 February 2019

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