What is recorded here

Indicated is a figure-of-eight cashel where two opposing D-shaped rings share one straight wall on a Clare pasture rise. Its northern chamber holds a wedge tomb and hut remains, suggesting people lived beside or inside an older ritual place rather than merely building a fence. The southern ring adds radiating grass-covered walls and a faint outer trace, widening the shape into a local landscape marker instead of a ordinary farm boundary.

On a slight rise in rough pasture, with wide views S-W-N but obscured by higher ground NE-E-S. Indicated on both the first (1842) and later, Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Two, conjoined and opposing D-shaped cashels, orientated N-S, share a common wall and present an almost figure-of-eight shaped ground-plan. The N cashel (diam. 33.5m N-S) with a straight S side (L c. 33m; and the N side of the S cashel) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth c. 1.1m; max. int. H 0.8m; max. ext. H 0.65m) which is generally collapsed (overall Wth 2.3m at N) and which is overlain by a later wall at W. The entrance (Wth 1.7m) is at the N and is approached externally via a long, sunken way (L c. 30m N-S; Wth 3.35-6.1m; max. D 1.5m; Westropp 1905, 217 for ground plan). There is a hut site (CL010-095003-) in the NW sector of the interior, abutting the inner face of the enclosing wall, and there is a second hut site (CL010-095004-) against the enclosing wall at SE. A triangular area (int. dims. 8m NW-SE; 7m E-W) abutting the SW corner is defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) and may be the remains of a third hutsite. There is also a wedge tomb (CL010-095002-) in the NE sector of the interior. As discussed by Comber (2008, 106-8), this is one of several examples in the Burren of a cashel apparently deliberately enclosing, incorporating or being built adjacent to an Early Bronze Age ritual structure. Other examples include Caherconnell cashel (CL009-030011-; Hull and Comber 2008, 123-30), another cashel (CL009-059076-) in Ballyganner North, and two others (CL009-001026- and CL009-001013-) in Lissylisheen. Conjoined at S is a similar-sized, D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 28m N-S) with a straight N side (L c. 28m) which is shared by both enclosed areas. The enclosing wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) has well-preserved outer facing SE-S along with a short section of surviving inner wall-face (H 0.35m) at S. Grass-covered walls radiate from the conjoined monument’s perimeter at NE, SE, SSW and W. The remains of a possible concentric outer enclosing wall are visible in satellite imagery (Aerial Premium 2013-2018) from NE-E-SSW. See attached image: CL010-095001-_01.JPG Snip of Westropp’s ground plan (1903). Note. North is to right. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 15 May 2023

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