What is recorded here
No visible hall, chamber or entry marker remains. The measure is a shallow circle, broad enough to hold a small life and narrow enough to exclude a crowd. That difference is the whole design. The fort is finished. The claim is not.
In pastureland on top of a long, gentle S-facing slope. When visited in 1983 this poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24.4m) was defined by a heavily overgrown drystone wall best preserved at N. On a revisit in 2001 the monument was completely overgrown and field-clearance rubble was thrown up against the external wall-face, particularly at S. (McCaffrey 1952, 213, no. 44a)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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