What is recorded here

No archive ever named the people who built Cloonaherna, but the stones still stand in a complete oval, twenty-six metres across, while domestic life has come and gone around them. Trees broke through the wall and owners forgot the shape, yet the ring resisted erasure better than any written claim. A house appeared twenty-seven metres away, digging stopped where the stones began, and the fort kept its boundary intact.

On a low rise, in native woodland, c. 27m to SSW of a modern dwelling. Depicted on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the OS 25-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 20m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by a single enclosing element. Archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping immediately to the N in advance of the building of a new dwelling (Finn 1999; 2000, 15; Licence no. 99E0153) produced no archaeological material. At that stage the monument was described as being in a poor state of preservation with trees growing across the entire area. The monument was described by Discovery Programme staff (2006, SMR file) as a cashel (int. diam. 29m E-W; 26m N-S) with a well preserved wall (Wth 2.2m; H 1.8m) at E located on a gentle W-facing slope immediately above a steep slope. The following images have been uploaded: CL035-099----_01.jpg From SW. General view across area of monument (taken from roadside wall). CL035-099----_02.jpg From NW. General view across area of monument (taken from roadside wall). Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 20 March 2018

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