Ringfort - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, located on top of a narrow E-W ridge, with panoramic view.
This originally circular, bivallate ringfort was incorporated into a later system of field walls, and partly levelled.
The remains consist of a subcircular area (c. 25m E-W; c. 23m N-S) defined W−NNE by a sod-covered bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m, at W) of earth and stone, and NE−E by traces of a levelled scarp, overlain by a N-S field wall. The SE−S edge of the ringfort is truncated by a pronounced straight E-W scarp/field boundary, coinciding with the top of the natural ridge slope. The SSW−W arc of the enclosure has been removed. An outer stone bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) survives in an arc at SW−NNW, with an intervening gap or fosse (Wth 2m) which is evident as a flat area or terrace rather than a sunken feature.
The interior is relatively level. A sod-covered, roughly semicircular slightly raised feature (diam. 3.7m E-W; H 0.25m), with stones protruding around the edge, is located slightly NW of centre. Roughly in the centre of this is a sod-covered heap (diam. c. 2m; H 0.25m) of earth and stones. These features may be the result of field clearance.
A field bank on a N-S axis extends through the E half of the interior. This originally flanked the W side of a farm track which cut across the E edge of the ringfort.
The remnants of the enclosing elements incorporate much stone, but it is unclear if this ringfort is a cashel, or whether it is a rath whose banks were modified by incorporation into later field walls.
Grass cover, with gorse along the scarp to S.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 30 November 2020