What is recorded here
Fairy forts and local legend These are not forts for little people. They are human places, often ancient, renamed through joke, fear or wonder. The fairies enter later as a story, not as a measurement.
On a NW-facing slope in an area of open karst on the N extent of a raised area with a lower reclaimed area immediately to the N. A subrectangular cashel (c. 22m NE-SW; c. 21m NW-SE) defined by a stone spread with a later stone wall superimposed in parts and with possible house sites in the SE corner. Templeline church (CL010-087002-), graveyard (CL010-087003-) and ecclesiastical enclosure (CL010-087001-) lie c. 115m to the N on the other side of the reclaimed area.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 July 2023
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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