Cahervagliar

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Cahervagliar is a one-acre ringfort (a 'rath') that is listed as a National Monument in County Cork.[1]

Cahervagliar is located just over three miles south-south-east of Kilmichael.[2]

History and description

Cahervagliar is a bivallate ringfort, 240 feet in diameter with a lintelled stone entrance to the east.[3] The name means "stone ringfort of sons of Lóegaire": it was the fortress of the Cenél Lóegairi, kings in central Ireland, of whom Lóegaire mac Néill was one. However, the Lóegairi clan did not build the fort, as they did not arrive until after 1172, and this fort is of the type built between 550 and 900 AD.

Within the fort, villagers were housed in wooden huts. Local lore claims that Brian Boru was once held hostage here.[4][5]

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