Ooanknocknagroagh

On slightly elevated ground in an area of improved pasture in Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured and named ‘Ooanknocknagroagh’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and is indicated and named ‘Umahin Chnoc na gCruach’ on Robinson’s (1997) map. Westropp (1901, 280) referred to it as ‘Ooanknocknagroagh’ and ‘Boenknocknagroagh’ and believed it was levelled. O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 20) gave the Irish form as Uamhainn Chnuic na gCruach and referred to it as ‘effaced’. It was listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A roughly circular cashel (est. diam. c. 40m) defined from S to SW by an overgrown bank of stone (Wth 1.4m; H 0.7-1m). Elsewhere the enclosing element is either absent or too overgrown to access. The cashel wall merges with a field wall at WSW and an overgrown boulder wall of stone (L 3m H 0.9m) runs inside the cashel wall at S. The name of the fort (uaimh being the Irish for cave) suggests it may contain a Man-made underground passage. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 February 2022