What is recorded here

Clear water moved through Strake when people watched the sea from a low rock turret. They may have sat inside the small hut, waited for boats, and called others upward when shadow crossed the bay. The turret still stands at the edge of the platform, narrow enough to touch on both sides, keeping that old job of watching.

Within ‘Doon’ promontory fort (MA084-005001-): on the summit of the natural outcrop of rock at the extreme western the end of the platform (Pl. III, labelled ‘e’). There are also two other houses (MA084-005003- , MA084-005004-) on the platform. On the detailed drawings of this fort, Westropp employs the letter ‘e’ to identify a small semicircular feature that he labels ‘hut’ on his plan (Pl. III). However, he does not expressly refer to it as a hut in his descriptions. Rather, he treats it and the outcrop on which it sits as some kind of a lookout post dominating the access path that skirts its W side. This is most clearly stated in his 1914 description, where he refers to the artificial shaping of the ‘rock turret’, noting that ‘the bastion so-formed was fenced by a loop of wall 3 or 4 feet [0.9–1.2m] thick’ (1914, 328). No definite surface trace of this ‘loop of wall’ survives today on the grassy summit of the outcrop. The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 29 November 2018

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