Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating, rocky pasture. Monument described in the 1970s as an oval-shaped area (dims. 25m E-W; 24m N-S) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank, a gap in the bank at ENE may represent an entrance. The inner earth and stone bank is much disturbed, particularly from SW-W-WNW where it is completely denuded and a modern stone wall running NNW-SSE is immediately outside it. Elsewhere the bank has remains of internal and external stone facing whereby some of the stones are large and set on edge and some are set upright. There are traces of a shallow fosse which is present all around except at SW, where obscured by the field wall. There is a low outer bank from N-E-SE, which crosses the line of the fosse and intersects the inner bank at S. The surface of the interior is uneven and contains a house site (WM024-126001-) in the centre and there are the remains of two possible house sites adjoining the ringfort bank at NNW and SSE.

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

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

Date of upload: 27 August 2019