What is recorded here

Cloonahard holds a rare double-ringed fort where two earth banks and two ditches enclose a circular grass platform thirty-three metres across. Its southeast gap still aligns with a causeway, admitting people into a space ordinary fields have half forgotten. The fairies may have taken the inner walls, but they left the shape of human ambition buried beneath the pasture.

In level, low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 33.5m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3m; H 0.9m max.), an intervening fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 1.4m), outer bank (Wth 5.4m; H 1.25m) and outer fosse (Wth 4.1m; D 0.6m). From NW–N–NE the external face of the outer bank has been modified and the outer fosse has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a third low bank; it also noted that the interior was bisected into roughly equal portions by a low bank and fosse, aligned NE–SW. These features are no longer visible at ground level. A break (Wth 4.1m) in the banks at SE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. A possible Man-made underground passage (LF014-074002-) is associated. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

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