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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballycahan

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Ballycahan holds two cashels, one perhaps twenty metres across and the other barely eleven metres away, embedded in rough pastureland where limestone outcroppings break through the soil. Field walls cut across the larger circle and extend outward, suggesting human hands shaped the landscape long before modern fences arrived. The stones may have marked a dwelling, a boundary or a forgotten ritual place, yet they remain visible only through patience and aerial perspective. What is certain is that people lived near, passed beside or tended this spot, and the earth preserved enough of their work to resist complete erasure.
In rough pastureland in an area of outcropping limestone. The overgrown outline of a possible circular cashel (diam. c. 20m) is visible on current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe (2011-2013) and Geohive MapGenie (2013-2018)). A field wall cuts across it from E to SSW and other field wall extend off it at SSW and NNW. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott. Another cashel (CL008-130001-) lies c. 11m to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 September 2022

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