Hilltop enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 82-3) and situated at the E end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 94m NNE-SSW; 93.6m WNW-ESE) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 3m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.5m) E-ESE and (Wth of top 6.6m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.3m) W-WNW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) elsewhere. It is bisected by a WNW-ESE field wall and townland boundary with Castleruby to the S from which a NNE-SSW field bank (Wth 2.7m; H 0.9m) with slight silted drains runs N. The possible road (RO027-068----) may run over its S extent. Archaeological testing (03E0072) c. 100m to the SE (Read 2006i) and further testing (05E0345) c. 150m to the NW (Henry 2008f) failed to produce any related material.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Read, C. 2006i Castleruby: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 420, No. 1558. Bray. Wordwell.

Henry, M. 2008f Tonroe: No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 328, No. 1351. Dublin. Wordwell.