What is recorded here

Derreen West holds five stone rings within a hundred metres, a crowded fairy circle on the low terrace of Knockaunsmountain. The main cashel spans thirty-five metres, large enough for a family farm but small enough to overlook. Its neighbours press close on the west, north and east, suggesting a settlement rather than a lonely marker. The field system still frames them, preserving the shape of lives that stopped speaking but never stopped taking up space.

On a low NW terrace of Knockaunsmountain within a large field system (CL004-098----). A subcircular enclosure (c. 35m N-S; c. 32m E-W) visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photo (2005-2012) and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Another possible cashel (CL004-104----) lies immediately adjacent to the W. Three cashels CL004-003----, CL004-004---- and CL004-007---- lie 60-100m to NW, N and NE respectively. The following image has been uploaded: CL004-103----_01.jpg OS orthophoto 2005-2012. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 22 February 2021

A subcircular stone ringfort in Derreen West, likely dating to the early medieval period, situated on a low terrace of Knockaunsmountain. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy dwellings, reflecting their enduring presence in Irish folklore.

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