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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Clooneen (corcomroe By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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In pastureland on high ground at the S extent of an E-W ravine, within a field system (CL009-059001-), an E-W running roadway lies immediately to the N. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as enclosure in the RMP (1996). An almost circular cashel (ext. dims. c. 33m E-W; 32.4m N-S) defined by a drystone wall encloses a flat-topped mound. An outer wall (Wth 1.7m) was subsequently added to the original cashel wall (ext. dims. 28.4m N-S). The outer face of the inner wall is visible from SW to NNE and the outer face of the later wall is visible from S to N and at NNE; where visible sections up to 1m high survive. There is no evidence for an entrance but it may be located in the E where there is a particular concentration of collapsed material along the perimeter. The enclosed mound is eroded at the edges and rises 1.4-1.8m above the external ground level; at N it rises to 3.6m. A cashel (CL016-020022-) is located c. 48m to the SSE and another cashel (CL016-020019-) is located c. 80m to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 19 April 2022

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