What is recorded here

No visible fort remains at Teernea, though map hachures marked the site in 1842 and 1916. Stones from the lost cashel now fill three pens beside its companion enclosure, while hazel scrub holds the N-facing slope. The fort may have stood as one conjoined shape before roading, ploughing or building took it; the surviving pens show that the place kept serving people long after its first form disappeared.

In hazel scrub on a N-facing slope, and abutting the W side of an adjoining cashel (CL017-098002-). Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an ‘enclosure (conjoined)’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 242) as a ‘curious fort, 8-shaped in plan, of two equal rings, and excellent masonry with two faces and filling. It seems to have been built in one piece: the wall is usually 4 feet [c. 1.2m] to 4 feet 6 inches [c. 1.4m] high’. An oval cashel (diams. 38m NE-SW, 27.3m NW-SE) has been significantly denuded since Westropp’s visit and is defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 3-6m; H 0.6-1m) incorporating large blocks of original cashel-wall masonry (L 0.5m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m). A modern-looking gap connects the monument to the abutting cashel (CL017-098002-) to the E. Internally, three pens have been constructed against the collapsed cashel wall at N, SW and SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 21-10-2025

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