What is recorded here

Meggagh West holds a subrectangular cashel where a wide grassy bank still marks the edge of a forgotten room. The stone ring rises beside rough pasture on a steep slope, large enough to shelter people, herds or fear from ordinary weather. Its exact purpose has faded, but the shape remains clear: a place set apart, built to keep something inside or keep the world outside.

In rough pasture on a terrace in a steep, W-facing slope. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subrectangular cashel (int. dims. 11.8m E-W; 11.3m N-S; ext. dims. 21m N-S; 18m E-W) is defined by a wide, grass-covered stony bank (Wth 3.5-6.7m; int. H 0.9-1.1m; ext. H 0.25-1m). Occasional outer wall facing stones (H 0.25-0.45m) survive and two upright slabs at S may be the remains of inner wall facing. There is a hut site (CL010-048003-) c. 31m to the S and a Man-made underground passage (CL010-048002-) c. 68m to the SW. See attached images: • CL010-048001-_01.jpg Aerial view from west (Photo. Markus Casey, March 2007). • CL010-048001-_02.jpg Ground view from east south-east. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 5 April 2023

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