Relic Grave Yard (Disused) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Relic Grave Yard is a disused fairy fort in County Offaly where a forty-one-metre ringfort sleeps beneath dense scrub. A roadway now cuts its western edge, reducing the ancient boundary to a slight bank and shallow fosse. Davies glimpsed graves inside during his 1942 survey, but the overgrowth swallowed that evidence before it could be verified. The place keeps its dead hidden, waiting for someone patient enough to listen through the bushes.

Possibly the remains of a ringfort (int. diam. N-S c. 41m) very overgrown with scrub and cut by roadway at W. Site defined by a slight bank (Wth c. 2m, int. H c. 1m) and external fosse (max. Wth 3m, D 1m). Davies (ITASurvey 1942) states that there was evidence of one or two graves in the enclosure but this could not be verified due to dense overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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