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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Cahermaclanchy

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Mammy, you are wrong about everything. The chamber is not empty, it is occupied. You are the intruder. That is why the doors will not open for you. Leave the chamber and close the door behind you.
On a N-facing slope in rough pasture and outcropping limestone, within a local relict field system (CL008-016001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This almost circular cashel (30.9m N-S; 29m E-W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.3-2.1m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m), which from SW-N survives to five/six courses in height. A spread of collapsed material (Wth 1-2m) is visible at the base of both wall-faces. From N-ENE the wall is reduced to a low overgrown bank, while from ENE-S only the outer wall-face is visible beneath a later field wall. From S-SW the wall is straight (L c. 20m) and here again only the outer wall-face can be traced. There is a house site (CL008-016006-) in the S sector of the undulating rocky interior. Another cashel (CL008-016004-) lies c. 74m to the S. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-016005-_01 View from NNW Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 24 August 2022

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