Cloghboy Stone Ringfort — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Cloghboy is a ruined stone ringfort on a Donegal ridge where a modern building has already stripped its eastern wall for bricks. The western gap still marks the entrance, and the remaining stones hint at a small defended home rather than a fairy tale. Someone lived there, lost the wall, and disappeared into the ordinary countryside.

Internal Diam 14.6m E-W, 11.3m N-S. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall, a modern square structure is built of robbed stones on the E side. At the SE corner the beginnings of a modern wall runs off the cashel. A gap of 2.7m to the W seems to have been the original entrance. Rock outcrop has been incorporated in places in the cashel wall. The site is located on a bench of an E-W ridge with sparse rough vegetations. 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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