What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ross (inchiquin By.) is a natural circular hollow thirty-three metres wide on a north-facing slope in County Clare, mapped as a rath in 1840 and still respected by townland boundaries in 1920. The west edge rises into a two-metre scarp while the north holds a narrow inner berm, giving the hollow the shape of a made chamber though no built cashel remains visible. It may have been a dwelling, a boundary marker or a place people simply remembered as enclosed. Scrub is taking it back, but the line drawn around it in 1920 shows that it still mattered to the land.

In a hollow on a slight N-facing slope in an area reverting to scrub. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and as a stone wall surrounding a hollow on the 1920 Cassini edition with the townland boundary curving to respect the feature. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 a natural circular hollow (diam. 33m) was noted defined by natural scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.8) with a berm (Wth 1.6m) inside the wall at N. There were no definite remains of a cashel although it was noted that a cashel (CL025-159----) 340m to the W had been similarly marked on the 1920 map. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 December 2025

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