Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, located on top of a ridge, with good views of the surrounding undulating grassland.
Slightly raised circular area (33.8m E–W; 34.7m N–S) defined by a stony scarp (ext. H 1m). The scarp is very dilapidated, with short lengths at NE and S disturbed or partly levelled, and a section at NW–N quarried away. It is topped with a low, irregular spread of sod-covered stone, possibly a robbed-out wall. At SSE–SW it forms a more clearly defined stone bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m); a gap of 1.7m separates this from an inner stony rise (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) which is irregular, poorly defined, and does not occur elsewhere around the circuit.
The interior is slightly higher in the centre and N, giving enclosure a somewhat domed appearance in profile. A slightly raised mossy line, extending on a NW–SE axis through the centre, may be the remnant of a field boundary or internal division. In the N half of the interior a series of interconnected irregular hollows may indicate a collapsed souterrain (MA062-086001).
Rough grass in the rath interior; heather and a few hawthorn trees on the enclosing scarp. There is cairn located 35m to NE, and a rath (MA072-004001-) 200m to SE.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 November 2020