What is recorded here
Querrin holds a forgotten ringfort where clay and stone still draw a circle across the field. It is the kind of place people once built to keep out rain, theft and perhaps the unseen. What is missing is not the wall but the life that moved through it.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 926 yd
Enclosure in QuerrinEnclosure · 1368 yd
Corlis Point Front Leading LightLighthouse · 1.0 mi
Querrin PointHeadland · 1.2 mi
Catholic Church of the Holy Spiritchurch/chapel · 1.5 mi
Glasheen BeachBeach / strand · 1.9 mi
Beal PointHeadland · 3.5 mi
Castle (Site of)Castle, tower house · 3.8 mi
Beal Castle (in ruins)Castle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 3.9 mi
Diamond RockHeritage attraction · 4.0 mi