What is recorded here

No visible trace remains at Lough Gur, though a half-circle of double kerbed wall once pressed against the eastern cliff. It guarded rocky pasture beside Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements where Seán P. Ó Ríordáin excavated for eighteen seasons. The stones may have marked ownership, excluded herds or enclosed a small ceremonial life. They vanished before modern cameras, leaving only the valley and a forgotten shape beneath grass.

In rocky pasture under a low cliff on the E side of narrow N-S steep sided valley that bisects Knockadoon Peninsula separating Back Hill to the W and Knockmore to the E. The enclosure site is located E of a complex Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement that was discovered during a campaign of archaeological excavation over 18 seasons led by Professor Seán P. Ó Ríordáin at Lough Gur (Cleary 2018). These include archaeological excavations by Ó Ríordáin at Circle K (LI032-022028-) 290m to SW and at Circle J (LI032-022020-) 250m to SSW. Archaeological excavations were conducted by Cleary at a C-shaped enclosure (LI032-022008-) 275m Sto W. The enclosure (LI032-022026-) is located within a field system (LI032-022001-). The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps nor is it clearly visible on both the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013. Grogan (1989) recorded that ‘the site consists of a half circle formed by a double kerbed wall set against the base of the cliff. It is c. 10m in diameter‘. The site is illustrated by Cleary (2003, 99) and drawn and recorded as a C-shaped stone and earthen bank which abuts the E cliff face of a narrow valley that bisects Knockadoon Peninsula. The site of the enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 20/09/2020. The precise location of the monument should be verified by fieldwork. See attached site location map by Cleary 2003 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 25 November 2020

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