What is recorded here
Situated on a slight N-facing slope in pasture. Circular slightly raised area (diam. 27m) enclosed by a random rubble limestone wall (T 1.8m; int. H 1.2m). No fosse visible. The internal face is intact on all sides but had been reconstructed as a field wall NE-E. The external face has collapsed outwards NE-SW and at NW. The original entrance is via a break (Wth 1.5m) in the wall at SW. A NW-SE orientated field boundary links to the cashel wall at NE and E. An ENE-WSW orientated field wall links to the cashel wall at NW and a NNW-SSE orientated field wall links to the cashel wall at SE.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL005-093
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- Cliffoney, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Hellowiki789, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- IrishFireside, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Suzanne Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ian Rob, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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