What is recorded here

Mortons and Parsonage House occupy a narrow valley floor where Clarenbridge River joins the Shannon, placing domestic life directly beside open water. The name Parsonage suggests clerical residence, while Mortons identifies the later family or occupational layer. The river did not behave like a decorative feature; it set the limits of cultivation, travel and risk. A house built there accepted flooding, mist and distance as ordinary conditions.

In sheltered pasture surrounded by overgrowth, with higher ground to N and S and a S-flowing stream c. 50m to the E. This poorly preserved enclosure is defined by a double-faced drystone stone wall (Wth 2.2-2.5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 0.5m) which survives only from SSW to SW. The facing-stones are rough and irregular. From ESE to SSE, a stony bank/scarp (int. H 0.7-1m) defines the enclosed area. At the top of this scarp at SSE, two large blocks appear to be the inner and outer facing-stones of a wall (int. H 0.4m; Wth c. 2.2m) which is overgrown here externally. At ESE, a broad stony bank (Wth 4.2m; H 0.8m) runs N (L 20m) from the edge of the enclosure and continues N towards Ballyportry Castle [CL017-084002-] and was possibly associated with it. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13-10-2025

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