Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle rise in low-lying marshy pasture, immediately N of a small stream. Overlooked by higher ground on all sides. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. A bivallate oval rath (est. 66m E-W; 47m N-S) comprising a raised internal area (28m N-S) defined by an inner bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 2-2.3m) and scarp, a flat-based fosse (Wth 5.5-8m), and an outer bank (Wth 4-6.5m; int. H 0.3-2.6m). To the S the inner bank has been reduced to a scarp and the fosse and outer ditch peter out, and based on orthophotography the monument appears to be truncated here by a post-medieval field drain carrying a small stream. A gap through the inner (Wth 3.1m) and outer (Wth 2m) banks at NNW may be original, although no trace of a causeway is evident. The interior is heavily overgrown, but in the SW sector a low mound is visible, possibly representing a collapsed building. A small drystone structure of probable post-medieval date has been built into the fabric of the outer bank at N.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 5 September 2022