What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined stone ringfort on the east side of the Ballyvaughan valley, marked on maps since 1842 but reduced by 1901 to a small, levelled heap crowded with thorn-bushes. Its circular bank still measures twenty-one metres across, yet a later wall and loose stones have blurred its original shape. It may have been a dwelling, a boundary marker or a forgotten stronghold, but the valley has taken back most of its purpose.

On slightly raised ground and under scrub but surrounded by reclaimed pasture, on the E side of Ballyvaughan valley. Indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the 1916 ed. Westropp (1901, 282) referred to it as one of ‘seven cahers’ in this townland predominantly ‘small and levelled… [and] quite overthrown and crowded with sloe and thorn-bushes’. A roughly circular cashel (int. dims. 21m E-W by 19.5m N-S) defined by a predominantly stone bank (Wth 3.5-5.4m; H 0.5-0.9m) with probable outer facing (H 0.5m) surviving at SE and no clear entrance. A later wall runs on the outer perimeter of the bank adding to its height and concealing facing elsewhere. A small pile of loose stones is located inside the cashel, in the N sector. Cahernahooan cashel (CL005-054----) lies c. 150m to the NNE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 8 June 2022

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