This is the 10th of the “Travels Down Memory Lane Series”. Over the last couple of years, there hasn’t been an opportunity for holidays away. So I decided to look at some of the posts I’d planned to write, and for various reasons, I hadn’t.
There is nothing as much fun as taking a walk down memory lane and revisiting and sharing the photographs and journals from our travels.
After our visit to Ballycarbery Castle, we decided to visit one of the two nearby ringforts, Cahergall.
“Cahergall Stone Fort
Stone forts, which are found mainly in the west of Ireland, are notoriously difficult to date. Some are thought to be Iron Age (about 500 BC to 400 AD), while many are simply stone versions of the common earthen ring fort which was the typical farmstead of the Early Historic period (about 400 to 1200 AD).
Cahergall is a particularly fine and impressive stone fort with a massive dry-stone wall. There are flights of steps and terraces in the inner face of the wall and the upper parts of these, together with the linteled entrance, have recently been reconstructed.
Within the fort, there are the remains of a large circular dry-stone building. It is likely that somebody of importance lived here about 1,000 years ago.”
Although we walked to Cahergall, we photographed the other one from a distance! The ringfort was amazing.
I climbed up to the top of the ramparts and then realised I was climbing the highest point and the width of the steps was narrow.
I find myself holding the stone wall beside me. It was all a bit too high for me. I didn’t enjoy looking down.
I reached the broad grass-covered wall at the top, and the views of the castle and the other ringfort were wonderful.
We walked all the way around the top of the wall, then climbed down by the shortest section of the wall.
We were lucky with the lovely weather…
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Wow! I loved visiting these places through your photos. Cahergall is such a beautiful building, if only walls could talk there must be so much history and stories to tell about this building. It is amazing to think they could be a thousand years old. Thank you so much for sharing and a lovely idea for a post.