Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the lower SSE face of a high ridge in gently undulating grassland with good views to the SW and W with a small lake 60m to NE. Ringfort (WM012-049----) 40m to NW. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 28m NW-SE) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earthen bank and a well defined external fosse that has been infilled at SW, and steepened from E-S. There is a possible causewayed entrance (Wth 2.4m; H 0.2m) at SSE. The interior slopes slightly to WSW, and contains traces of cultivation ridges which run ENE-WSW. The fosse is intersected at SW by a field fence running NW-SE. Linear earthworks are visible in field to SE on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. A possible sunken road is also visible on the aerial photographs to NW of ringfort. These earthworks are clearly visible on aerial photographs taken by Cambridge University in 1968 and 1970 (CUCAP AVO055-057; BDV073). The earthworks in the field to SE appear to represent field boundaries of two buildings which are depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 February 2018