What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Loughgur: an oval stone ring, thirty-two metres across, set on a SE-facing pasture slope beside a cashel and standing stone. It vanished from the 1840 map, reappeared in 1897, and is now smothered in sod yet still visible from above. People may have lived there, marked it, or avoided it; the stones keep their shape while the grass reclaims the rest.

In pasture on a slight SE-facing slope with goods views in all directions 130m WSW of the townland boundary with Cahercorney. Located 100m SW of the cashel (LI032-068----); 300m E of a standing stone (LI032-065----) and 400m NW of Knockbolg House (NIAH Reg. No. 21903217). The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 32m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) with an opening (Wth. c. 5m) in the NE side on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. O’Kelly (1944, 28) described the cashel (LI032-068----) to the NE. The site is covered by sod that has accumulated over the bank or enclosure that defines the site visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 20/09/2020. The site may have originally been a cashel. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 18 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 304/36 taken 13/09/2002.

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