Ringfort - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

In grassland, in SE corner of field 130m E of townland boundary with Toberagarriff. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with transected at S and E by post-1700 field boundaries. This map depicts Farnane House 300m to E with a separate tree lined avenue running S from the R506 for a distance of 175m. The avenue stops 55m to N of the enclosure. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts a raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m) defined by a scarp. Digital Globe aerial photography taken 2011-13 shows the outline of the enclosure in the SE corner of the field with a number of gaps particularly at N. Outline of poorly preserved monument visible Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. On this image than enclosing bank is visible from E through S to SSW with the remainder of the enclosing element denuded and large gaps visible at N and NE. Could have been a ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature of the lands surrounding Farnane House. Alternatively it may be the remains of a post-1700 tree-ring contemporaneous with Farnane House.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 10 June 2020