What is recorded here

Indicated spans two kilometres across exposed karst in County Clare, linking Caherconnell and Eantybeg North through irregular boundaries that still shadow the scrub. Eleven cashels and ancient enclosures dot the line, suggesting people shaped this harsh ground long before modern farms arrived. The fields may preserve Bronze Age memory near Caherconnell or older megalithic practice near Eantybeg North, while reclaimed land has swallowed much of the surrounding pattern. What remains is a broken mosaic, visible only in patches, yet wide enough to have sustained an entire neighbourhood of lives now forgotten.

An extensive field system (c. 2km SW-NE; c. 500m NW-SE) stretching from Caherconnell at SW to Eantybeg North at NE and visible intermittently on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018) in an area of exposed karst with patches of dense scrub cover. The fields are very irregular and are associated with 11 cashels including Caherconnell itself (CL009-030010-) and Caherlissaniska (CL009-045----) and a number of enclosures. Some parts of the field system may have prehistoric elements given the presence of a Bronze Age house (CL009-030018-) close to Caherconnell, a megalithic structure (CL009-045004-) in Eantybeg North and two unclassified cairns, one in Eantybeg North (CL009-147----) and one in Eantybeg South (CL009-170----). Many of the surrounding fields have been reclaimed. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 September 2021

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