What is recorded here
Mortons and others may have seen the Fort of Cloghboley as a boundary marker between human and fairy time. The claim is not that the fort is hollow or that death is certain. It is that the place still works as a warning about visibility. That is why the warning exists. The chamber is not a chamber of suffering. It is a chamber of recognition.
In an area of outcropping rock. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A circular stone structure (diam. 4.5m) in the E sector of the interior may be the remains of a house site (GA113-095001-). A drystone-built structure at W and another outside the cashel wall at SE are possibly later features. (McCaffrey 1952, 269, no. 6)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
IndicatedEnclosure · 1200 yd
RathbaunFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1280 yd
Cloghballymore Ho.House, 18th/19th century · 1.8 mi
Cloghballymore Housecountry house · 1.8 mi
Castle (in ruins)Castle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 2.3 mi
Mulroney's IslandIslet · 3.6 mi
Cusheen IslandIslet · 3.9 mi
HawthornHawthorn · 4.2 mi
European ashEuropean ash · 4.2 mi