Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low rise in pasture-land, this site has been almost completely destroyed. Ringfort (WM007-041----) 275m to NW. Ringfort (WM007-042----) 220m to SW. Ringfort (WM007-069----) 220m to SSW. Bivallate ringfort (approx. int. diam. 32m N-S) depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped enclosure intersected from W to N by the townland boundary with Ballynakill. No enclosing element is depicted on the N side of the townland boundary. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map the monument is depicted as a bivallate enclosure consisting of a circular area enclosed by a bank, fosse and external bank which only survives from NNE-E-ESE . The interior of the ringfort is intersected from W-N by a townland boundary with no external bank depicted on the NW side. It seems likely that the external bank of the ringfort from W to N is located in the adjoining Ballynakill townland. Modern farm buildings now stand inside the centre of the ringfort as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. An ASI site report from 1975 recorded that a silage pit had been built on the site of the monument. Only a segment of the enclosing bank (max. H 2.5m) and shallow fosse survives at W.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 13 April 2017