What is recorded here

Ballykinvarga holds a subcircular cashel twenty metres across, its thick stone wall reduced to a low ridge that circles a gentle north-facing slope. The entrance faces east-northeast, the lowest point on the perimeter, where the wall spreads differently and invites entry rather than blocking it. Another cashel waits sixty-eight metres to the southwest, suggesting a small cluster of dwellings or shelters rather than a lonely marker. People may have lived here, tended animals here, or simply passed through the field system that still surrounds it. The stones no longer rise high enough to keep out rain or curiosity, but they remain arranged in a shape that human hands made deliberate.

On a gentle N-facing slope in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 20.9m E–W; 19.6m N–S) is defined by a denuded stone wall (Wth 3.8–4.6m; int. H 0.3–0.7m; ext. H 0.7–1.1m). The lower stones of the outer wall-face (H c. 0.5m) are traceable from N to E. A poorly preserved drystone wall (Wth 0.6–0.7m; H 0.3–0.6m) is built over the outer wall-face from E through S to N, possibly continuing from N to E. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at ENE, the lowest point on the perimeter, where the denuded wall spread is distinct from the rest of the wall circuit. The interior slopes gently to the N and E. Another cashel (CL009-202----) lies c. 68m to the SW and an enclosure (CL009-059016-) lies c. 143m to the SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 March 2022

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