Enclosure in Rath

Twenty-six metres of drystone wall still mark a D-shaped enclosure on a Clare ridge, twenty-one metres east of a ringfort. Blackthorn chokes the border now, but the straight western edge and steep eastern drop suggest people chose this ridge deliberately, perhaps to keep livestock, tools or living space separate from the fort beside it. The nearby fields have been cleared and spoil dumped across the edge, yet the enclosure remains visible enough to imagine hands stacking stone and feet moving through a narrow valley long before modern instruments named it.