What is recorded here

Caheruagongar is a stone ringfort on Miland Hill in County Cork, Ireland. Its circular wall still stands around a central mound marked as a cave on old maps, hinting at an underground passage beneath the grass. The fort sits atop a knoll in open pasture, where sheep may have grazed above a hidden chamber since before written memory.

In pasture, atop knoll on SSW-facing slope of Miland Hill. Circular area (26.5m N-S; 25.8m E-W) enclosed by stone wall; inner face well preserved (H 0.6m); outer face survives to NE, ESE and WSW, giving original width of 2.75m. At centre overgrown subcircular mound (H 0.95m; 17m N-S; 11m E-W) with central depression (diam. 4m; D 0.5m); this feature marked as "cave" on both eds O.S. map; according to Nyhan (McCarthy 1977, 326) a Man-made underground passage was found here (CO120-006002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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