Ceremonial enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a small hill at the NE end of a small NE-SW ridge, with a NE-SW section of a small stream c. 160m to the SE and a S-N section of the Cor River c. 370m to the W. The internal barrow is depicted as a small embanked feature (ext. diam. c. 20m) described as a ‘Moat’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and the enclosure as a hachured feature (diam. c. 50-55m) with an inner hachured feature on the 1907 edition.
This is a domed subcircular and grass-covered area (dims 55m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.8m) and hedge, and an outer fosse (Wth of base c. 1m; D 0.1-0.2m) visible W-N and but absent elsewhere. The surviving bank is generally lower than the top of the hill. There is a bowl-barrow (MO010-015001-) just NW of the centre. There are several entrances but that at SW might be original. The enclosure was overgrown in 1983 but the scrub had been cleared by 1995 (OSAP).

Date of revised upload: 26 January 2018

Compiled by: Michael Moore

References

OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.