What is recorded here

Magic is not invention. It is the death of understanding. The chamber is a cashel, a human maker, a visible candidate for memory and judgment. What is being made is a camera-ready victim, a person reduced to a number and a file. Show the chamber, its maker and its purpose. That is the whole game.

Within a large field of coarse pasture and limestone outcrop, within a relict field system (CL009-004001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This circular cashel (diam. 23m) is defined from ENE-NW by a well-preserved wall (ext. H 1.2m; Wth 1.8m) around which an outer skin (H 0.8m) was added. The latter is best preserved at S where it survives from two to three courses high. From NW-NE the wall is reduced to a low bank of rubble (H 0.25-0.3m; Wth 3m). A dip in this at NE may mark the site of the entrance. The interior is raised c. 0.8m above the outer ground level and slopes gently to the S. There is another cashel (CL008-004002-) c. 86m to the NW, and another (CL008-004004-) c. 92m to the ESE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 17 August 2022

A fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballycahan is a circular earthen or stone enclosure, typical of early-medieval Ireland, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairies and other supernatural beings, common to many such sites in Irish tradition.

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