What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloontagh,currygranny stands on a low pasture rise, its thirty-four-metre circle marked by a faint scarp and curving bank rather than a deep ditch. At the centre sits a small mound of earth and stone, perhaps the ghost of a hearth or the bones of a forgotten house. The entrance has vanished beneath grass and time, leaving the place neither fully hidden nor clearly remembered, but holding its shape in the field like a breath not yet released.
On a low rise in pasture. A raised subcircular area (34m N-S; 32m E-W) defined from NNE-E-ESE and at S by a scarp (H 0.2-0.7m) and elsewhere by a curving field bank and drain. There is no trace of a fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. At the centre of the interior is a low circular mound of earth and stone (diam. 5.7m; H 0.2-0.3m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- No visible remains or recorded as destroyed
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