What is recorded here

Mortimer's army marched past Kiltaan in 1598, yet the stone ringfort still stands inside later field walls. Its broad entrance faces southeast toward open pasture, inviting entry rather than blocking it. Two other cashels watch from nearby slopes, forming a small triangle of ancient boundaries. The fort is not abandoned; it has been absorbed into the living landscape, its purpose changed but its presence unbroken.

In pastureland on ground sloping slightly down to the S and W, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A drystone field wall (H 1.4-1.5m) has been built on the line of the outer wall-face of this subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 22.3m E–W; 21.8m N–S), which is reduced to a grass-covered stone spread (int. H 0.4m); inner and outer wall-facing at N indicate that the original wall was 2m wide. A stone-lined entrance gap (Wth 0.95m) is visible at SE. Within the interior a band of stones (Wth 1-2m; H 0.5m) has been piled against the drystone wall, it increases in width at E (Wth 5m). An L-shaped stone wall (max. H 1.5m) is located outside the cashel wall, c. 1m to the E of the entrance. There is a cashel (CL009-013010-) c. 48m to the SSE and another one (CL009-013008-) c. 94m to the NW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 21 October 2021

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