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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghroak

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible trace of the Cloghroak ringfort survives, but a field wall still cuts through the space where a twenty-six-metre earthen circle stood. That boundary may have swallowed the fort, turning an old home into a ordinary fence line. The fairies kept what the surveyors lost.
In pastureland. This is the W example of two adjoining enclosures (see also GA104-112001-) marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was roughly subcircular in plan (diam. c. 26m). On the 1933 edition of the map only the NE half of the monument is indicated by a line of hachures. A field wall cut through it from NW to SE and no trace of it is depicted to the SW of the field wall. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 226, no. 138a) as a possible earthen fort which was in a very ruinous condition. No visible surface trace of either monument now survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 July 2017

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