What is recorded here

Cahermackirilla holds a twenty-metre stone ring in a slight fold at the bottom of a north-facing slope, where later drystone walls and two rectangular shelters still cling to its outer edge. The cashel has watched rough pasture, weather and forgotten foot traffic for generations. Its double-faced boundary and buried inner wall suggest people once shaped that fold into a home, a trap or a marker for the living and the dead.

In a slight fold at the bottom of a N-facing slope, in rough pasture. Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP. This subcircular cashel (20.7m E-W; 20.3m N-S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 2.2-3.3m; int. H max. 0.6m; ext. H 1m). Stone spill (Wth. 3.3-4.6m; H max. 0.6m) around the edge of the interior obscures the inner wall-face. A later drystone wall is built over the outer wall-face from W to N. Later drystone structures are built on the wall and the stone spill of the perimeter at SE-SW. Two modern rectangular drystone structures are built against the outer wall-face at N and E. The structure at N (int. dims. 7m E-W; 3.25m N-S) has a double-faced wall (H max. 1.5m). The E structure (int. dims. 5m N-S; 1.7m E-W; H max. 1.4m) is more dilapidated, but with a doorway and cupboard in its E wall. A hut site (CL009-084030-) lies c. 81m to the SE and an enclosure (CL009-084011-) lies c. 85m to the NNE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 April 2022

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