What is recorded here

Magic and story surround the loss of so much of the wall. The truth is a human cashel, almost circular at 27 metres across, with a 3-metre-thick stone wall on a gentle north-facing slope in Ballykinvarga. Its lower outer face still traces most of the perimeter, though later field building and robbing have hidden parts of it. The name may be fairy, but the work is human: a round fortified place set within a long-lived field system, still readable in grass and stone.

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 almost circular cashel (ext. dims. 27.9m E–W; 27.4m N–S) is defined by the denuded remains of a stone wall (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3–1.2m). The lower course of the outer wall-face (max. H 0.4m) is traceable around most of the perimeter, surviving best at W and N. It is not visible from NE to E and between E and S, due to robbing of the wall spread, the blocks (max. L 1.3m; max. Wth 0.5m; H. 0.6–0.9m) of this face are now visible at the base of a scarp (H 0.8m). A later field wall has been built over the wall at S. A subrectangular structure (CL009-059102-) is visible in the NW sector of the interior. Another cashel (CL009-214----) lies c. 171m to the SW and an enclosure (CL009-059016-) lies c. 193m to the SSW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 March 2022

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