Enclosure in Clooncunny

In pasture, at the base of a NNE-facing slope bordering the shore of Lough Gara. Densely overgrown with blackthorn, hazel and hawthorn bushes. Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures E-SW in the N end of a narrow field. Now evident as a subrectangular area (25m N-S; c. 30m E-W), on a level terrace at the base of a steep slope, defined by a linear scarp (H 1.3m) along the N side, by linear field boundaries on the E and W sides and by a curving bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.25m) of earth and stone SE-SSW. A shallow depression (Wth 1.5m; D 0.4m), noted on the external side of the bank at S, may indicate the line of a silted-up fosse. The interior is level and covered with overgrowth. The ground rises immediately to S.

In pasture, at the base of a NNE-facing slope bordering the shore of Lough Gara. Densely overgrown with blackthorn, hazel and hawthorn bushes. Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures E-SW in the N end of a narrow field. Now evident as a subrectangular area (25m N-S; c. 30m E-W), on a level terrace at the base of a steep slope,…