Ringfort (Cashel), Coolderry, Co. Tipperary

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Ringfort (Cashel), Coolderry, Co. Tipperary

A townland boundary cuts straight through this early medieval enclosure in Coolderry, and that administrative line has done more damage than centuries of weather.

The northern half of the site has been levelled entirely, leaving only a semicircular arc of wall to suggest what was once a complete circuit. What remains is still substantial enough to read as a cashel, the term used for a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks and ditches, and this one was constructed from rubble limestone, the wall running to roughly three and a half metres in width.

The surviving stretch sits in a hollow that slopes gently eastward, and the wall's internal and external facing has collapsed outward over time, leaving the rubble core exposed. At its highest the wall now stands around 0.7 metres on the interior side and a little less on the exterior. The interior itself is so densely covered in brambles and scrub that measuring the full diameter of the original enclosure has proved impossible. That combination of partial demolition and rampant vegetation means the site exists somewhere between legible monument and absorbed landscape feature, the kind of place where early medieval habitation is present but not easily resolved into a clear picture.

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