What is recorded here
Situated just off the E end of a WNW-ESE ridge. This is a raised, circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 31m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at WSW: Wth of base 2.7m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 2.4m) and hedge, with an external fosse SW-N-E that has a field bank outside it WNW-N. This probably incorporates the remains of an outer bank which is visible W-WNW. The entrance (Wth of base 1.2m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.5m; H 0.35m) are at ESE. The interior is bisected by a N-S field bank. Rath (MO013-037----) is c. 190m to the SE.
Situated just off the E end of a WNW-ESE ridge. This is a raised, circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 31m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at WSW: Wth of base 2.7m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 2.4m) and hedge, with an external fosse SW-N-E that has a field bank outside it WNW-N. This probably incorporates the remains of an outer bank which is visible W-WNW. The entrance (Wth of base 1.2m) and…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO013-036
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- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Enda O Flaherty, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Walking with a phone, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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