What is recorded here
Cloonroosk holds a shallow oval scar in level pasture, twenty metres long and twenty-six wide, with a faint outer ditch and inner slope. People called it a fairy fort, which means it still feels like a threshold rather than a ruin. A human hand may have shaped that circle for shelter, ceremony or exclusion, while the fairies took it over later in story. The grass covers the truth but does not erase the shape.
In level pasture. Oval area (20m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.1m; Wth 2m) with an external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 3.2m). Interior slopes down gently towards centre and is under pasture. Field boundary skirts enclosure 8m to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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