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Field boundary in Mooghaun South

Field boundary

What is recorded here

One collapsed limestone wall stretches forty-five metres from the central cairn toward the hillfort rampart, marking an ancient division inside Mooghaun hill. It is not a modern fence but a boundary made by hands that shaped the hill long before written memory. The stones still lie where they fell, preserving the shape of a field no longer visible.
A number of field walls occur on Mooghaun hill representing more than one phase of land enclosure. In the SE quadrant of the inner enclosure of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-), two walls (CL042-074028- and CL042-074029-) are likely to be ancient features. One wall (CL042-074029-), represented by an irregular bank of collapsed limestone blocks, extends 45m from c. 4m W of the central cairn (CL042-074013-) SW almost to the rampart. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 127; Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 131, 141) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 January 2016

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