What is recorded here
Caherlesk is a hidden ringfort, with a field boundary cutting through its edge and mature trees growing around it. It appeared on the first Ordnance Survey map inside a small plantation, but human hands have since crowded the ancient circle. The fort is no longer a clear outline; it has become a tangle of roots, soil and forgotten measurement.
Indicated as a roughly circular enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, within a small tree plantation. On the 1948 revision the monument is enclosed by a field boundary which appears to be truncating the perimeter. A townland boundary runs NNW-SSW immediately outside the SE sector. On satellite imagery (Digitalglobe) the monument is obscured by mature trees growing around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 April 2023
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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