What is recorded here
Indicated is a vanished oval ringfort on a south-facing Clare slope, mapping its ghost while pasture and time erased the rest. It may have stood thirty metres across, housing people whose names never reached us, before becoming a line on paper and then nothing at all. The land keeps forgetting what it once held, offering up empty grass where a life should be.
Toward the bottom of a S-facing slope in pasture. Recorded on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval ringfort (est. diams. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 26m NE-SW) but with only the south-western perimeter (SSE-S-WSW) indicated on the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. When inspected in 1998, no visible surface traces were found. A second levelled enclosure (CL017-080----) lies c. 110m to the NW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 22 August 2023
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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