What is recorded here
Cloonnagalleen holds a broken stone ring where human hands shaped the hill before fairy tales claimed it back. The field wall still bends around the circle, admitting the fort more than it admits a farm. Inside the shallow dip, shadow and memory gather like breath in a chamber no longer built for people.
In rough pasture, atop hill in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (37.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m), best preserved NE->SSE. Gap (Wth 4m) in bank at NE. Field wall kinks to respect enclosure NE->SSE. Interior is level and under pasture except for section (L c. 7m N-S) immediately inside enclosing bank SE->SW where there is noticeable dip, covered with trees, separated from rest of interior by ruinous curving wall (H 0.6m; Wth 0.8m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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