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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Cashlancran

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

That is the cashel in Cashlancran, an oval stone ringfort forty-one metres long and thirty metres wide. It stands in recently cleared pasture, its low wall barely eighty centimetres high and hidden beneath thick growth. The fort is not a polished monument or a complete palace. It is a broken local mark, partially erased by time and vegetation, yet still large enough to show that people shaped the land there.
In recently cleared pasture. Oval-shaped area (41m N-S; 30m E-W), enclosed by poor remains of stone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.8m), heavily overgrown. Interior heavily overgrown, with low stone walls running through interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 266. Date of upload: 23 December 2014

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