Enclosure in Kilvoydan — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilvoydan in County Clare is a ruined enclosure where a later field wall cut through an older circular bank, leaving only a western D-shaped ridge of spoil and stone. The eastern half has vanished beneath pasture, but the surviving curve still marks the top of a gentle south-facing slope where human hands shaped the earth before forgetting or fury erased the rest.

Towards the top of a gentle S-facing slope. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Hachured as a circular ringfort (est. dia. c. 38m) on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. However, by the time the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) was drawn, only a chord of enclosing bank (L c. 24m) from WSW-W-WNW was recorded, together with a later field boundary running N-S through the interior of the monument. When inspected in 1999, the E-portion of the monument (to the E of the later N-S boundary wall) was not clearly visible at ground level. However, the W portion (to the W of the later N-S wall) was traceable in undulating, rough pasture, where it survived as an uneven D-shaped raised area (17m N-S; 10m E-W) of spoil-like material (H 0.3-0.8m) containing hollows, defined from W-NW by a curvilinear bank-like feature (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) of earth and stone. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29-10-2025

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