What is recorded here

Indicated is an oval cashel on a narrow western terrace, its tumbled drystone wall still holding a shape that resistance and forgetting have not erased. The steep ridge and rough rock suggest a place chosen for visibility rather than comfort, where a household might have watched weather, traffic, or danger from above. Its field walls and inner house point to ordinary life sustained on difficult ground, not abandoned fantasy.

On a narrow level terrace on the W face of a steep-sided ridge in an area of very rough and overgrown rock outcrop. Not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but indicated with a solid line on the 1915 ed. An oval cashel (int. dims. 33m N–S; 30m E–W) defined by a tumbled drystone wall (Wth 1.7–4m; H 0.2–0.9m) with inner and outer facing-stones surviving at E (original wall Wth 1.7m). Occasional outer facing-stones are visible at N and W but the inner facing-stones are largely obscured by collapse. A house of indeterminate date (CL006-009002-) occurs within the W sector. A field wall radiates off the SE, another runs concentric from SE–N outside the cashel and further field walls abut the concentric wall forming a field-system (CL006-009003-) with potentially contemporary elements. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 April 2021

Aillwee is a likely early-medieval ringfort, situated on a narrow terrace on the western face of a steep ridge, indicated on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. Local folklore associates such sites with fairy activity, and the name "Aillwee" may derive from the Irish *Áth Luimnigh*, suggesting a crossing or ford linked to legend.

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