Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, immediately W of a watercourse, 60m NW of townland boundary with Ballydoorty. Ringforts (LI037-070/099----) lie 260m to the SE and 430m to the W, respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at N and S by post-1700 field boundaries running N-S. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a partially levelled monument consisting of an irregular-shaped area (dims. c. 18m NW-SE) defined by a scarp and delimited at SE by a drainage channel running NE-SW. On this map a 'Draw Well' is depicted immediately to W of earthwork. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘three forts’ in the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 1275). Monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark delimited at E by a field boundary on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 20 April 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.