What is recorded here

No visible entrance and no central building remain, yet the unbroken stone circle on a bare limestone rise suggests a boundary drawn around life itself rather than a box for storage. The nearby underground passage and sibling cashels imply a small neighbourhood where people moved through solid ground as easily as they walked past hedges. The fort may have marked a threshold between the ordinary field and a hidden world, inviting curiosity instead of warning retreat.

On a low but prominent rise in limestone pavement and rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 23.75m E-W; 20.5m N-S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall, which is best preserved at NNW (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth 2-2.2m). At N the wall is reduced to a stony scarp (H 0.35m). From NNE-ESE the collapsed wall forms a stony bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2m) with traces of both inner and outer wall-faces. At ESE the wall is wider (4.5m), possibly reflecting a double outer wall-face built to shore up the wall on this steeply sloping ground. From ESE-W (H 1-1.25m) there are only intermittent traces of the outer wall-face. A later field wall cuts off the W limits of the NW quadrant from the rest of the interior, which is slightly dished and slopes to the E. A Man-made underground passage (CL008-001005-) lies in the enclosed area. There are two other cashels nearby, one (CL008-001003-) c. 45m to the NE and another (CL008-131----) c. 114m to the SE. There is also an enclosure (CL008-058----) c. 159m to the SSW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 16 August 2022

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