What is recorded here

Enclosure in Gorteen (dangan Ed) is a vanished ring of small blocks on a gentle E-facing Clare slope, recorded by Westropp in 1914-16 as nearly levelled and unique in having wall filling. Local information says pasture improvement during the 1960s/70s erased what remained. The beech woodland and stone deposits to the north still hint at the lost boundary, while the smooth field may have swallowed the last visible marks.

In improved pasture, on a very gentle E-facing slope with rock outcrop close to the surface. A beech woodland with obvious rock outcropping and stone deposits located to the immediate N. Recorded by Westropp (1914-16, 65-66) as a small enclosure (labelled 'C’ on his map ‘Gorteen Group of Forts’) and he describes it as ‘a ring of small blocks….nearly levelled’ and refers to ‘the wall of C alone has filling’. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Not visible at ground level. According to local information this land was improved during the 1960s/70s. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 29 January 2018

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