What is recorded here

No visible wall exists in Carrowneden today, but slight surface undulations still trace the lost boundary beside the cashel. The destroyed structure likely followed the natural curving contours of the limestone rise, linking the ancient dwelling to nearby enclosures through deliberate stonework rather than leaving the landscape empty. Forgetting that connection reduces the cashel to an isolated ruin instead of recognising it as one room within a wider inhabited place.

In average pasture, on a rise in undulating limestone terrain, immediately to NE of a cashel (MA093-007001-). This field wall of unknown date was recorded in 1984 (SMR file) but subsequently destroyed during land reclamation in late 1980's/early 1990's. The wall (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.5m) was described as consisting of two facings of large stones with a core of small stones. It extended from the NE side of the cashel in a broad curve N–E. The point of contact of the wall and the cashel wall was obscured by a later field wall. At its E end the wall intersected with a modern NNW–SSE field wall (which is shown c. 20m to E of the cashel on the 1916 OS 6-inch map) which was also removed during reclamation works. Approximately a third of the way along its length, short projecting walls branched from the wall to meet the SW and SE corners of a small rectangular enclosure (MA093-007004-). Slight surface undulations can still be discerned, suggesting that the wall followed the natural curving contours of the rise on which the cashel is situated. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 June 2022

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