²⁷Schot, Roseanne. “Uisneach Midi a Medón Érenn: A Prehistoric ‘Cult’ Centre and ‘Royal Site’ in Co. Westmeath.” The Journal of Irish Archaeology 15 (2006): 57-8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20650850.
Schot writes, "...the structural evidence suggests that the two constituent sections of the figure-of-eight are, in fact, contemporary. Moreover, the presence of typologically similar houses, and souterrains, within their interiors, coupled with a finds assemblage dominated by early medieval objects (see below), supports a provisional classification of this monument as a conjoined ringfort."