What is recorded here

Magic and myth belong elsewhere. Clondallan is a stone ringfort in Donegal, built by human hands and recorded in local survey. It measures about sixteen metres across, holds a flat interior with exposed rock, and keeps a broken circular wall that still stands one metre high in places. The gaps mark where time and weather took the stones rather than where fantasy entered the site.

Internal diam. c. 16m. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed drystone wall which survives best on the N side where the inner and outer faces of the wall are visible in short stretches. The wall survives up to 1m in height. Just N of W there is a 3m gap in the wall and another 2m gap to the S. The interior is flat with some rock outcrop in the E half. Several field walls run up to the cashel wall. It is located on level, light-soiled ground with much rock outcrop. There is better grazing on the lower ground to the N and E. 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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