What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthwork in undulating pasture in County Clare, Ireland, first drawn as a ringfort on the 1842 survey map and still visible as a raised scarped area about twenty-eight metres across. It sits where the boundary between Bunnanagat South and Monanaleen bends from southwest to west to north, marking a small defended or enclosed place in the landscape. Later field walls cut across it, and one now runs north-south through the monument, changing what the circle once kept inside.

In undulating pasture. Recorded as a ringfort on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and hachured as an enclosure on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Also depicted on the intervening OS 25-inch plan (1897) which records a scarped raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) upon which part of the townland boundary separating Bunnanagat South and Monanaleen runs from SW-W-N. A field boundary wall is recorded on the enclosing scarp from N-E and the monument is defined by a scarp from E-S-SW. Aerial imagery (DigitalGlobe) shows that the boundaries formerly on the monument from SW-N-E have been removed and a later field wall has been erected running N-S across the monument. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 August 2023

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