What is recorded here

Mistake and mockery are written into every name given to this place. Hut, earthwork, barrow, enclosure: each label fits a different shape and a different time. The stones themselves refuse the argument. They form a shallow circle at the western edge of a rocky terrace, facing the ravine and the distant fort. Inside the circle a slightly raised platform remains, large enough for one person to sit or sleep. The ground outside is bare rock and thin grass, exposed to weather and visible from a distance. The site does not shout. It waits for someone to stop calling it something it is not and watch what it is doing instead.

At W leading edge of a wide gently sloping terrace of bare rock and rough patchy grazing and within an enclosure (CL006-207----). The ground falls away more steeply to the W of the site and Coskeam Fort (CL006-062----) is visible c. 400m to NE. A ravine, c. 100m to the W, which sometimes contains water is known as Poulaloughan. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and as ‘Barrow’ in the RMP (1996) and hachured on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A poorly preserved circular enclosure (int. dims. 6.3m NW–SE; 6.1m NE–SW) defined by a moss- and grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.5–4.3m; H 0.1–0.5m) with a short horizontally coursed section of walling at S composed of thin flat flags and a slightly raised platform like area (diam. 3m; H 0.2m) in its centre. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 13 September 2021

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