What is recorded here

The first surveyors saw it in 1842, but the stones stopped caring about human borders long before that. A twenty-four metre ring leans into the Clare slope, its double-faced wall half-swallowed by moss and collapse. At the centre, a three metre hole drops half a metre into darkness, possibly a cave mouth or a passage built by hands that no longer answer. The fairies never left; they simply stopped building for people who could be measured.

On the SW-facing slope of a knoll in undulating mixed karst and pasture. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This poorly preserved cashel (int. diam. 24m NW-SE) is defined from NE-E-S by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H c. 0.8m) and moss-covered collapsed walling (combined Wth 4m). Inner and outer facing-stones are visible intermittently. Elsewhere, the wall has been removed, its line overlain by a later drystone wall from S-W-NW and by a single course of drystone wall from NW-N-NE. Near the cashel’s centre is a subcircular area of sunken stone collapse (diam. 3m; D 0.5m) with rubble accumulated around its S edge. This may be a natural depression or cave, or possibly a Man-made underground passage. There is an enclosure (CL017-238----) c. 65m to the SW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.