What is recorded here

Cairn: a small, flat-topped, grassed-over stone circle on a cliff-edge plateau in County Clare, set among old fields, hut sites and enclosures that stretch from prehistoric times to the post-medieval period. It stands where the land drops sharply into a ravine, visible from a distance and likely used as a marker, boundary or memorial across centuries. People may have passed it while moving livestock, working fields or remembering the dead, reading its shape against the sky.

In a prominent, highly visible location on a N-facing slope at the N edge of a plateau, with land falling away steeply into a ravine c. 45m to the N and c. 42m to the E, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). A small flat-topped, grassed-over, circular cairn (diam. at base 4m; diam. at top 1.8–2m; H 0.3–0.5m). There is a dense concentration of enclosures, houses, hut sites, cairns and associated field boundaries in this area, dating from prehistoric to post-medieval periods (Grant 2010, 47). An enclosure (CL009-021022-) lies c. 143m to the WSW. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-021013-_01.jpg View of cairn from W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 3 November 2021

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