What is recorded here
No gate, no seam, no break in the wall. The fort is a complete circle of grass and soil, unmarked except where the earth has slipped open at the east. What enters there does not need a door.
On a slight rise on a NW-facing slope. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 45m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 9-10m; int. H 1.2-1.7m; ext. H 1.7-1.8m generally to 2.65m at N) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 4.6-5m; ext. D 0.1-0.2m). There is no visible entrance, but the bank is damaged and the fosse obscured by this spoil at ENE (L c. 14m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 April 2020
Lisconry, Cloghauninchy is a circular earthen ringfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, characterized by a substantial bank and ditch. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy dwellings, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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