Promontory fort - inland

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight promontory of low-lying land, on the SE shoreline of Lough Owel, overlooking Lady's Island 370m to W, slightly higher ground to E, SE and S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as the arc of a bank enclosing a roughly oval shaped promontory to WNW. Depicted on the OS Fair Plan map as the arc of an enclosure extending across the neck of a small peninsula in Lough Owel, annotated ‘fort’. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a slightly modified, more linear bank enclosing a roughly oval-shaped promontory to WNW.
Monument described in 1970 as an oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 68m NE-SW; 48m NW-SE) enclosed from NE-E-S by a fosse and bank. The fosse is wide, shallow and flat-bottomed fosse with a very slight bank on the upper edge of the scarp. Elsewhere the earthwork is bounded by a scarp which has a slight bank on its upper edge from S-WSW. There is no trace of a formal entrance. There is a natural rise in the interior at the outer edge of the NW quadrant. There is a small, subrectangular steep sided relatively modern platform at the upper edge of the scarp at NE, that looks like a golf tee. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 18 February 2019