What is recorded here

Cashelnagrossan is a twenty-metre stone ringfort on a Donegal rock platform where large blocks still stand one metre high against the wind. The wall is two and a half metres thick, solid enough to exclude people or preserve a boundary no longer spoken. Modern field walls cut across the ancient line, proving the land has been taken, rewritten and forgotten more than once.

Internal diam. c. 20m. The cashel wall is traceable from SSE to S and from SW to N and measured on the SW is 2.5m wide. From SW to N the outer face survives with but a few small gaps, and is built of large blocks surviving in places to two courses and c. 1m in height. The inner face is traceable only for a few short stretches on the SW. The interior is rough and uneven with rock outcrop occurring. Modern stone field walls cross the site which is on a platform of rock with good views. The land is suitable for grazing but wet and marked by rock outcrop. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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