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Enclosure in Caherfadda

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Enclosure in Caherfadda
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Caherfadda holds three small stone circles and a cairn along a wide western ridge, proving the land served human ritual or residence before modern pasture. The main enclosure measures barely eight metres across, yet its collapsed bank still draws the eye because the ridge itself seems to lean westward as if listening. People may have herded livestock, buried dead, or marked seasonal changes there; the stones no longer explain which. What remains clear is that this was never empty nature. It was a shaped place, repeated across distances so short a person could walk between all of them in minutes.
On a wide E-W ridge which slopes and broadens to the W, in rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-166001-). This small circular enclosure (int. dims. 7.8m N-S; 7.6m E-W, ext. diam. 13.7m) is defined by a bank of stone collapse (Wth 2-3.8m; max. H 0.5m). Other enclosures (CL009-196003-; CL009-252----) lie c. 40m and 81m to the SSW respectively. There is a cairn (CL009-196002-) c. 66m to the SSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 July 2022

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