What is recorded here

You can still walk the hillside where Cashel keeps its name, but the fort has vanished into legend and loose stone. The townland appears on Wogan's 1750 map without a single drawn wall, as if the place had already begun to forget its own shape. In the 1940s, stones from the cashel were scattered across the ground, perhaps taken for paths, perhaps shed by time. What remains is a borderland between memory and myth, where a stronghouse becomes a fairy fort and the hills keep their secrets in ambiguity.

The townland name – Cashel – suggests that there was once a stone fort within it, and even though Coshell or Cashel townland is represented on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 2) no fort is depicted and none is depicted on any OS 6-inch map. Any such monument remains unlocated, although stones from the cashel were said to be scattered on the hillside in the 1940s (Blaney 1944). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January 2020

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