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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Tullycommon

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Two conjoined cashels stand in a vast old field in Tullycommon, their eastern chamber marked by a broad stone spread and a drystone wall rising from southwest to east. The entrance faces southeast, guarded by two slabs laid across the line like a threshold between the ordinary field and whatever memory the stones keep. People may have lived there, herded animals, or simply traced the circle before leaving. The fort holds no name but shape, and shape is often enough to remember.
Situated at the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope on grass-covered karst and within a very large field system (CL010-064001-). The eastern of two conjoined circular enclosures (see also CL010-064085-, and hut site CL010-064086-) with a number of irregular related fields adjoining to the N. A circular area (int. dims. 17.6m N-S; 18.8m E-W) defined by a stone spread (H. 0.3-0.6m; Wth 2.4m at N to 3.9m at W). A drystone wall is built on top of the stone spread from SW to ENE. From there it extends ENE on top of an old field wall of similar construction to the cashel wall. An entrance feature at ESE (Wth1-1.1m) consists of two slabs laid across the line of the wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 22 March 2016

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