Cliff-edge fort in Cloonty — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half-built and half-swallowed, the fort in Cloonty still holds its shape on the eastern bank. A low earthen ridge curves around grass and rushes while the western edge drops into the stream, as if the marsh took back every inch it could. Across the water another enclosure waits, mirroring the first. Together they suggest a place where people lived beside danger, using the cliff and the flood as much as their own hands.

On a low ridge running along the E bank of a stream, in generally marshy terrain. A roughly D-shaped area (26m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed NW->SW by an earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m), with an external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.6m) NW->NE. The relatively straight W side is defined by a natural scarp (H 2m) forming the E bank of the stream. The enclosing bank is very low at SE (Wth 4m). The interior is level and covered by short grass and rushes. A similar enclosure lies directly across the stream to the SW (LI018-091---). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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