What is recorded here

Outlined is a circular area sixteen metres across, enclosed by contiguous upright stones half a metre high, with no visible entrance gap on a low rise overlooking Casloughtermon. The field is called Rath Liath, suggesting a grey fort rather than a ceremonial circle, yet the separate upright stones and missing doorway resist that explanation. Templecrone Church ruins watch from nearby, while an unshaped enclosure lies twenty metres away, leaving Outlined caught between a house, a fort and a circle.

Situated on a low rise of ground in an area of rock outcrop overlooking a sea inlet known as Casloughtermon to the E. The ruins of Templecrone Church (DG048-008001-) can be seen 435m to the NE overlooking the N shoreline of Casloughtermon. The W shoreline of this inlet is 60m E of the possible stone circle. An iregular shaped enclosure which may be the wall footings of a large house site (DG048-012----) are located c. 20m to the NE. The site consists of a circular area (int. diam. c. 16m) enclosed by a circle of contiguous upright orthostats (avg. H 0.5m) with no evidence of an entrance gap into the circle. In some places there is evidence or traces of a possible bank or small packing stones supporting the base of an on the external face of the upright stones. The monument is located in a field known as the 'Rath Liath [Grey Fort]' (Pers. comm. J. Doherty 21/10/2011) and may be the remains of a denuded cashel rather than a stone circle but the lack of a clearly defined entrance feature and the single upright stones suggests that it may be the remains of a stone circle. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 27th October 2011

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