What is recorded here

Indicated is a faded stone ring in County Clare, marked on an 1842 survey but reduced now to a shallow scar and scattered rubble. It may have been a cashel, a boundary, a shelter or a forgotten field enclosure, yet even its purpose has become uncertain. The land has not erased it completely. It has only removed the parts that made the shape easy to believe.

In rough pasture and scrub on limestone karstic pavement within a multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as Enclosure in the RMP (1996). This possible cashel (int. diam. 24.3m N-S; ext. diam. 27m E-W) is defined by the hardly traceable remains of a double-faced stone wall (Wth 2.15m at N; max. H 0.4m at W). From W-NE it is delimited by a scarp (av. H c. 0.25m) with intermittent traces of the outer wall-face; at N faint traces of the possible inner wall-face survive. From E-S all that survives is a very subtle rise in ground level, while at SW only some stone can be felt in the undergrowth. The interior slopes gently to the SW. There is a cashel (CL008-008002-) c. 40m to the E. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-008001-_01.jpg View from NNW Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 19 August 2022

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