What is recorded here

Thirty-eight metres of collapsed double wall still circle the NW-facing slope in Ballyganner South, enclosing a tower house, possible 16th or 17th-century dwelling and a short entrance passage that runs toward three more house remains. The outer face is built of long horizontal stones, while later drystone work rides above it, suggesting the fort was not abandoned but reused, altered and finally forgotten in pasture. Its name as a fairy fort may be local story rather than fact, yet the nested rooms and blocked gap make it easy to imagine people moving through a place others later dismissed as fantasy.

On a NW-facing slope in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 38.5m SW-NE; 37.2m NW-SE) is defined by a much-collapsed double-faced stone wall (Wth 2.2m; max. ext. H 2-2.4m). The wall spread (Wth 6-11m) is widest on the downslope from W to N. The outer wall-face is visible all round and is made of large horizontally laid stones (L c. 1m; H c. 0.3m); a later drystone wall has been built on top of it from N to SE. Only a short stretch (L 4m) of the inner wall-face survives to the S of the now blocked-up entrance gap (Wth c. 1.6m) at NE. Within the interior are the remains of a possible 16th/17th-century house site (CL009-059107-) at N and a tower house (CL009-059065-) at SSE. Two possible internal divisions, one within the other, are visible in the W half, though it is unclear whether the inner one is spoil resulting from more recent digging of the interior. The outer one is more definite and is defined by a bank (L c. 15m N-S; Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m). A passageway (L 6m; Wth 2m) extends off the entrance gap to the ENE. It is defined by a drystone wall to the N and wall foundations to the S. It leads to the remains of three houses (see CL009-059108-, CL009-059109- and CL009-059110-). (Westropp 1897, 119; Ua Croinin and Breen 1997; FitzPatrick 2009, 302) The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059064-_01.jpg View from SE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 5 April 2022

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