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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Kilcloony (dunmore By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible trace remains above ground, yet beneath the pasture the cashel holds its shape: a thirty-metre stone-ringed enclosure with a possible rectangular building inside and small field plots clustered around it. The road has cut through two edges, but the northwest bank still carries heavy stone, as if built to resist forgetting rather than invasion. Whatever lived there did so quietly, in rooms and divisions now hidden under grass, leaving behind a shape strong enough to survive the taking of its own boundary.
In pastureland. This cashel (int. diam. c. 30m) was noted on LiDAR imagery (FitzPatrick 2019, 25). A minor road running WNW-ESE clips it at NNW and NE. The arc of the enclosing bank in the NW quadrant has a high content of stone in its make-up. On the LiDAR image, a possible rectangular building (GA016-137002-) is visible in the W half of the interior and what appears to be an internal division bisects the interior on a N-S axis. A series of small fields and plots surrounding the cashel may be an associated field system (GA016-137003-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 December 2022

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