What is recorded here
Located on the southern side of an E-W orientated drumlin, situated just off the crest. Obscured by a lone thorn bush’ (Forest Service letter 14/08/2006). Ringfort (WM017-052----) 15m to N, hut site (WM017-113----) c. 70m to SE.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 10 January 2019
Probably dates to the Bronze Age, given its association with other early settlement features. May have had a ritual or territorial function, though specific folklore or symbolic meaning is not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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