What is recorded here
Cloonreask held a forty-metre ringfort on the limestone edge before ploughs erased most of its shape. A curved dry-stone wall still marks part of the original line, guarding a gentle slope where cattle now graze. The fairies may have taken the rest, but human hands built the first circle and human hunger removed it.
In low-lying pasture, on S edge of limestone outcrop. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), has been levelled. However, a curved section of dry-stone field wall (H c. 1m; Wth c. 0.65m), defining a semicircular area (20m N-S; 36.5m E-W) WNW->E, respects line of enclosure. Area of enclosure, under pasture, slopes down gently to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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