What is recorded here

No human has lived in the fort since the last map was drawn, yet the stones still stand in a broken circle on the cliff edge. The fairies moved out when the people stopped coming, but they left their marks behind: a small round chamber, a narrow passage, and a shadow that falls across the grass at noon. The fort is not dead, only waiting. It keeps the shape of the last hands that built it, and it shows that shape to anyone who sits still long enough to see it.

At the top of a steep N-facing slope, with wide views out from N-E-SE. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This circular cashel (int. diams. 21.6m E-W; 21.3m N-S; ext. dims. 37.4m N-S; 31.5m E-W) is defined by a poorly preserved stone wall (Wth 1.9-2m; H c. 0.4m) and collapsed rubble. The inner wall-face is traceable intermittently from W-N-E. The perimeter has been damaged by field-clearance activity, especially from E-S where the wall is obscured by a grass- and moss-covered bank of spoil (combined Wth 7-9m; H 0.4-0.9m). There is a Man-made underground passage (CL017-130002-) in the W sector of the partly tree-covered interior. Westropp (1913, 241) noted ‘a trace of a hut-enclosure’ against the cashel wall to the N of this Man-made underground passage. A low grass-covered wall (L 5m) running E-W through the E sector is probably a remnant of a later field system. Overlying the collapsed cashel wall at SSW is a circular stone cell (int. diam. 1.6m) defined by a grass-covered wall footing (Wth 0.7m; max. H 0.4m), but open to the N. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29-10-2025

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