Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Formerly in pasture, now sub-divided by two gardens of modern house plots, the Mulkear River lies 150m to W with Annacotty Bridge 200m to SSE. Annotated 'Bundotia Fort' on the 1840 OS 6-inch map when it is depicted as a circular shaped enclosure defined by a bank intersected at W and S by a post 1700-field boundary. Depicted as a semi-circulalr shaped earthwork with SW quadrant levelled by modern field boundary on the revised 1897 OS 25-inch map.
Present remains consist of a D-shaped area (c. 21.5m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by a scarp which is transected at SW by a modern field boundary running NW-SE as depicted on the OS 25-inch map. The enclosure is now bisected by a recent property boundary running NE-SW. The S third of the site has been damaged by mechanical excavation around c. 1996 where the scarped edge of the enclosure was pushed back onto the modern property boundary forming a mound of soil c. 0.65m high. The northern portion is less denuded and is defined by the curving scarped edge to the monument that rises above the field surface. The landowner of the N quadrant of the enclosure described a ‘hole’ located outside the NNE edge that was filled in c. 1960, suggesting the potential location of a partially collapsed souterrain.

See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 02/07/2018

Compiled by: Edmond O'Donovan

Date of upload: 26 June 2020