What is recorded here

Indicated is a stone ringfort on a steep Clare ridge where a later boundary wall covers an older, thicker court-built fort. It sits beside a prehistoric enclosure and holds an underground passage that enters a natural cave, suggesting people shaped the dark long before the field walls closed around it. The fort is not a showpiece but a buried layer of the ridge, marked only by a fading bank, scattered cairns and the shadow of its passage.

Abutting the S limits of a large, prehistoric enclosure (CL010-015001-) on the SE-facing slopes of a steep-sided, N-S ridge in rough pasture and limestone pavement, and containing a Man-made underground passage (CL010-015003-) which incorporates a natural cave (CL010-015004-). All lie within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Indicated on the 1840 and 1916 editions of the OS 6-inch map. A subcircular area (max. ext. diams. c. 35m NW-SE; c. 33m NE-SW; int. diams) is defined by a faint bank which is overlain by a later, drystone wall (T 0.5-0.7m) which acts as a townland boundary wall NNE-E-S. The interior slopes to the S and SE and is level in the SE sector which contains some clearance cairns. The site was recorded as ‘C-170’ by Gibson (2007, 2) who noted that the wall ‘rests upon the rubble and standing sections of an earlier, thicker wall of coursed construction’ and that the presence of a Man-made underground passage (CL010-015003-) ‘indicates a potential Early-Medieval date’ for the monument. Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 9 December 2022

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