Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, in NE corner of a field, ringfort (LI038-097----) and enclosure (LI038-091----) lie 180m and 305m to the NE respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse from SW-W-N-NE. The enclosing bank from NW-N-NE is irregular in shape and suggests that the N quadrant of the monument was possible quarried out between the map dates. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘four ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 270). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by a scrub-covered bank with scrub covered area at N and modern gap at NW on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Trace of outer fosse visible from SE-S-W on Google Earth orthoimage dated 29/03/2012.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 19 April 2021

References

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.