What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Gorteen (dangan Ed) is a vanished cashel on a low Clare rise where rock still lies beneath the grass. Westropp called it a defaced cathair after measuring a forty-two-metre circle that people had probably broken open for stone, soil or forgotten advantage. The fairies keep what humanity stopped seeing, turning an ordinary field into a place where memory, not marble, must be believed.

On a low rise with rock outcrop close to the surface, in improved, undulating pasture. Westropp (1914-16, 67) described this monument as a ‘defaced cathair’. It is depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. 42m) within an area of rough pasture and rock outcrop on the 25-inch OS map and the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 January 2018

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