What is recorded here

Meggagh West holds a broken stone ring where human hands first stacked rock against the sky. The wall still stands in places, thin and grassy, but the gap at the west and the fallen south section suggest the fort has been failing for a long time. A man-made passage hides inside the north half, waiting to be found again. The field lines stretch outward from the ring like ribs, proving the fort was never separate from the land it shaped.

Near the W edge of a plateau, in rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1842) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 24.1m N-S; 20.1m E-W) is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3.5m; ext. H 0.5-1m). Intermittent outer wall-facing (H 0.5m) is visible from N to E; it can hardly be traced from S to SW where the wall has fallen completely out. It may survive behind the spill at W. The inner edge of the spread is flush with the interior. A gap (Wth 2m) at W is a later feature. There is a Man-made underground passage (CL009-084028-) in the N half of the interior. Field boundaries extend off the cashel at E, SE, SW, W and NW. An enclosure (CL010-249----) lies c. 140m to the NE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29 April 2022

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