What is recorded here

Indicated is a stone ringfort on a Clare ridge where later farm walls strangled the ancient entrance, yet two upright markers still frame the gaps like guardians refusing to be buried. The 1842 survey called it merely a field, erasing the cashel from official memory while the stones continued holding their shape beneath pasture and neglect. Someone built a house inside its western edge, trusting the circle enough to live within its reach rather than break it.

On a raised area of rough pasture with views to all sides, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated as a field on the 1842 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A roughly circular cashel (30m E-W; 27.5m N-S) defined by a stone wall (Wth 2.3m; H 0.5-1m) with some inner and outer wall-facing. A gap at E (Wth 0.6m) is lined by an orthostat (H 1m) on its N side and another gap at SW (Wth 1.1m) is lined by one on its S side (H 0.3m). Later walls run over many of the original facing stones. A rectangular house site (CL005-115017-) is located in its W sector. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 March 2023

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