What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished house-ring in County Clare, recorded by Westropp in 1914-16 as barely fifty feet across with a thin wall of coarse cragg stones. The 1921 map still drew its subrectangular shape, but improved pasture in the 1960s and 1970s erased the visible boundary. The land may have swallowed a small domestic life, leaving only a name and a forgotten line beneath grass.

In improved pasture, on a very gentle E-facing slope with rock outcrop close to the surface. Recorded by Westropp (1914-16, 65-66) as a small enclosure which he labelled ‘A’ on his map ‘Gorteen Group of Forts’. He describes it as ‘a house-ring, barely 50 feet across, with a thin wall, 6 feet or 7 feet thick, of coarse cragg stones’. Depicted on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 19.5m ENE-WSW; c. 15.5m NNW-SSE). Not visible at ground level. According to local information this land was improved during the 1960s/70s. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 29 January 2018

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