What is recorded here

Ten metres of limestone rubble push outward from the missing rampart of Mooghaun hillfort, forming a D-shaped terrace where the defence line should have stood. A cashel sits slightly off-centre on the platform, with an older enclosure tucked beside it, as if the hillfort kept a room of its own outside the main wall. The shape suggests people wanted more space, not less, and they built it where the boundary disappeared.

Situated at the NW portion of the outer rampart of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). This area was cleared of vegetation in the early 1990s as part of the North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme. The hillfort rampart appears to be absent in this location and instead there is a platform built of limestone rubble that extends 10m out from the line of the rampart, forming a D-shaped extension to the natural terrace. A cashel (CL042-074004-) is placed on the platform, though not centrally and an earlier enclosure (CL042-074003-) was revealed extending slightly S and E of the cashel. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 125) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 January 2016

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