Parkmore Stone Ringfort — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Modern sheep walls straddle the ancient stones at Parkmore, hiding the true shape of Cashelnagalliagh beneath ordinary pasture. The surviving ring stretches from east to west across a slight rise, suggesting people once drew a boundary around the rock itself. Fairy forts rarely obey human logic, so the site may have marked a place where the visible world thins rather than a home for ordinary life.

A collapsed stone wall surviving from the ENE sec-tion through to the SW section is all that survives of 'Cashelnagalliagh' marked on the 2nd and 3rd edi-tions of the OS 6-inch maps. A modern wall is built on top of the original, the outer face of which is visible in some places. Other modern field boundaries cross the site. It is situated on a slight rise in undulating land consisting of rock outcrop and pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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