What is recorded here

Indicated was probably a rath on a narrow ridge above Cloonagh Lough, large enough to hold a home, a herd or a small community before it disappeared under pasture and traffic. The land still marks the loss: a faint circular rise remains where a road and ring once cut the grass, while the deleted laneway suggests people still believed the place needed an entrance. What is missing has not stopped arriving; it has only stopped being visible.

In pasture, located on a N–S ridge, with a gentle slope on the E side falling towards a level expanse of grassland extending for c. 400m E to the shores of Cloonagh Lough. Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as an oval, hachured ringfort-sized enclosure (c. 35m N−S; c. 25m E−W). This enclosure, which was probably a rath, has been levelled; the outline of a very slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. c. 23m) is visible at ground level. An E-W road or laneway, shown on the OS 6-inch maps, which lay immediately to S, has also been removed. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 April 2018

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