Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

In the NE corner of a modern rectangular field, undulating pasture, straddling the N slope of a low rise, with very good views, especially extensive to N–NE towards Poolboy Lough which is c. 550m to NE in a boggy basin.
Oval platform (46.5m NE–SW; 36.9m NW–SE) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m), which retains a low internal lip (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.3m) topped with stone at E−SW. The scarp is noticeably slumped at E and there is a low/eroded section at N, but the location of the original entrance is uncertain. The S and E portion of the interior is level, with occasional stones protruding from the sod. The SW quadrant is at a slightly higher level, with several stones protruding apparently randomly around it, and there is a slope down in the NW–N quadrant.
The scarp at N–ESE is incorporated into a later field boundary and is faced with drystone walling, now largely tumbled. A field wall on a NW–SE axis slightly truncates the scarp at S–SW. A field boundary which lay immediately to W of the rath has been removed. Grass cover, with clusters of hawthorn bushes around the perimeter.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 17 February 2022