Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Caiseal Charna

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
View what I want to do
No photo yet

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 found

What is recorded here

Internal Diam c. 15m. Cashelbane: A subcircular area enclosed by two closely-spaced, collapsed stone walls both partially removed and elsewhere grassed over. A modern wall is built on the line of the inner enclosure to the S. The ground between the walls is level and grassed. It is c. 5m wide. The outer wall is only poorly represented. The overall external diameters of the site are 31.5m NNW-SSE × 28.8m NE-SW. The interior of the cashel is undulating with some rock outcrop. A trigonometrical station has been constructed in the interior. There are two roughly circular depressions in the SW quadrant of the interior possibly the remains of structures (DG096-004002-). The site is located in an undulating area of fair pasture, rock outcrop and rougher land, overlooking Kilcar town to the WSW. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.