What is recorded here

Forestry trenches cut into the western wall and trees now shade the collapsed stones, but the fort still holds a thirty-four metre circle on the rough slope of Meennagassagh Hill. Its surviving face reaches barely eighty centimetres, yet the shape remains clear enough to suggest a small defended dwelling rather than a fantasy heap. People may have lived there, feared there or simply passed through the mountain rain; the stones no longer answer which.

Internal diam. c. 34m. A much damaged cashel situated within a forested area. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall. Sections of wall facing are visible to the NW. It survives up to .8m in height. The W section of the wall has been almost entirely removed. Forestry trenches have been cut up to and into the monument and it has been planted over. It is situated in rough mountainous terrain on the SW slope of Meennagassagh Hill. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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