Ringfort - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a natural hillock in undulating countryside. Monument levelled during land reclamation works carried out in 1968. Depicted as an irregular shaped platform on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. The Ordnance Survey Fair Plan of 1837 depicted the monument as an irregular pointed oval-shaped enclosure with its long axis N-S and annotated the earthwork as a ‘fort’. Described in 1968 as a 'small sub-triangular enclosure densely overgrown with bushes. Very slight collapsed stone wall slightly banked up to level interior where outside ground dips'. In 1973 the levelled site was surveyed and described as an 'oval enclosure (dims. 34.3m N-S x 22.3m E-W) most probably a ringfort is demolished. The interior dips slightly from the N-S axis towards the W. The almost level interior area has several slight humps and depressions which were probably made when demolishing the perimeter which is now represented by a low fairly smooth stony scarp. There is no definite evidence of a fosse. There is no visible evidence of an entrance way. No visible evidence of habitation' (ASI Field Report 20/03/1973).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 18 November 2016