What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed by fear. Cloghchurnel is a wide stone-and-earth ring, partly cut through by a modern road, with a shallow ditch at one side and a broken opening at the other. People may have lived there, herded there, or simply avoided it after dark. The name changed, but the shape still asks to be walked.

In well-drained, level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 36.5m) enclosed from N-S-WNW by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.4-7m; H 0.7-1m), which is truncated by a modern ENE-WSW roadway from NW-N-NNE. At the base of the bank at W and WNW is a shallow fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.7-0.8m). A recently widened break (Wth 4.5m) in the bank at E probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

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