What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined cashel on a Clare ridge, its low wall barely rising above the grass yet still casting a shadow across the SW corner where a smaller oval enclosure abuts it. The site has watched the valley since before the 1840 map marked it, surviving centuries of field boundaries and forgotten use. Its stones no longer stand tall enough to keep out invaders, but they remain visible enough to remind whoever walks past that the ridge was once claimed, shaped and remembered.

On level ground on the W-facing slopes of a ridge with commanding views from SW to N and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-). Indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and depicted with an oval enclosure in the SW corner on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A roughly circular cashel (23m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved wall which is level with the interior. The cashel wall is visible in the N (T 0.85-1m) and S (ext. H 0.5m) and the inner face of the wall (H 0.4m) at the E and S is occasionally visible. A later, oval enclosure abuts the interior perimeter of the cashel wall in the SW quadrant (L 11m N-S; Wth 7m E-W; T 0.7m; H 0.8m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 9 August 2022

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