What is recorded here

Faunarooska holds a robbed-out cashel on a western shelf of Slieve Elva, its outer stones still marking a circle nearly twenty-four metres wide while the inner wall has largely vanished. The fort sits inside a vast old field system and faces another cashel less than a hundred metres away, suggesting a settled landscape rather than a lonely marker. People may have lived there, herded there, or simply walked past it after taking stones for their own walls. The western view remains clear, carrying the place forward into every storm and clearing sky.

On a shelf of a W-facing slope on the NW slopes of Slieve Elva, with extensive views to the W. Listed as ‘Enclosure (possible)’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved, largely robbed-out subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 23.8m NE–SW; 20.3m NW–SE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2–2.5m; H 0.6–0.8m) with external facing-stones visible around its full circumference but with very few inner facing-stones. At the NW where some potential inner facing-stones are visible it appears the wall is 1.2m thick. A substantial drystone wall (Wth 1m; H 1m) runs SW–NE across the NW sector. This cashel lies within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-), covering an area of c. 8sq km. Another cashel (CL004-016014-), also within that field system, is located c. 90m to the NNE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 23 February 2021

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