Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
On slightly elevated ground in an area of improved pasture in Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured and named ‘Ooanknocknagroagh’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and is indicated and named ‘Umahin Chnoc na gCruach’ on Robinson’s (1997) map. Westropp (1901, 280) referred to it as ‘Ooanknocknagroagh’ and ‘Boenknocknagroagh’ and believed it was levelled. O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 20) gave the Irish form as Uamhainn Chnuic na gCruach and referred to it as ‘effaced’. It was listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly circular cashel (est. diam. c. 40m) defined from S to SW by an overgrown bank of stone (Wth 1.4m; H 0.7-1m). Elsewhere the enclosing element is either absent or too overgrown to access.
The cashel wall merges with a field wall at WSW and an overgrown boulder wall of stone (L 3m H 0.9m) runs inside the cashel wall at S. The name of the fort (uaimh being the Irish for cave) suggests it may contain a souterrain.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 February 2022
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.