What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined cashel in County Clare, Ireland, where a deep quarry still marks the place its stones were taken. The wall has collapsed into a wide spread, but the crude corner cell and shallow step remain visible beneath rough pasture. People may have built the ring to keep out rain, invaders or forgetfulness, and the quarry suggests they took only what the earth could spare.

On a S-facing slope in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-). Indicated on the first (1842) and hachured on the Cassini (1920) edition of the OS 6-inch map. This subrectangular cashel (dims. 35.3m E–W; 33.8m N–S) is defined by a drystone wall (Wth c. 2.2–3.3m; int. H 0.4–0.8m; ext. H. 0.5–1m) which has mostly collapsed into a stone spread (Wth c. 3–4m). The base of the outer wall-face is visible intermittently, constructed of regular horizontally laid stones. A later wall (H c. 0.7m) has been built over the outer wall-face from S-W-N. There is a step down (D 0.6m) from N to S in the interior, the NE sector of which is overgrown. There is a crudely built cell in the SE interior corner (int. dims. 3.5m N–S; 2m E–W). Outside at SW there is a deep rectangular quarry (D 1–2m; 20m N–S; c. 5m E–W), possibly the source of the stone used to build the cashel. A cairn (CL009-170----) lies c. 132m to SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 30-9-2025

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