What is recorded here

Caherdoonteigusha is a ruined stone ringfort in County Clare, Ireland, where a modern house and septic tank now cut through the ancient boundary. The cashel sits on level pasture facing the Aran Islands, its wall buried under field clearance and overgrowth except for a narrow southern gap. What looked like a defensive fortress may have been a domestic retreat, a boundary marker, or a forgotten neighbourhood, but the stones still outline a life that stopped paying attention to the horizon.

On level improved pasture with extensive field clearance to the E and good views of the Aran Islands to the W. A poorly preserved cashel (27.2m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a stone wall from E to NW and by a scarp from NW to E. Field clearance material has been dumped on the enclosing wall which is heavily overgrown. A modern gap (Wth 0.9m) at SSE is defined by two short lengths of modern drystone wall (H 1.2m; Wth 0.6m) and may be the site of the original entrance. Some outer facing-stones are visible immediately W of this entrance. A house lies partly on the line of the enclosure at NW and a septic tank has been dug in the SE sector of the interior. (Westropp 1900, 425; 1901, 7; 1915, 61) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 April 2014

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