What is recorded here

Indicated is a roughly circular cashel on elevated Clare pasture, its wide horizon bounded only by higher ground to the east and southeast. People built or reused its thick stone wall among several nearby enclosures, perhaps keeping livestock, hiding during trouble, or marking a boundary within the older field system. The two small roofed huts at its edge suggest somebody still lived there when mappers drew it in 1842, turning a defensive ring into a working home on the open hill.

On elevated rough pasture with wide views, only limited from E to SE by adjacent higher ground. Within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved, roughly circular cashel (23.5m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an internally and externally faced wall (Wth 2.5m) that was probably entered though a gap (Wth 3m) at SE. The outer face survives best (H 1-1.3m) and is built on a sheer rock face at W (H 1.9-2.5m). The inner face is much lower (H 0.25-0.5m). A later wall runs on the cashel wall from W to NE. Two small stone-walled rectangular huts abut the outer face of the cashel at E and SW. Both are indicated as roofed on the 1842 OS 6-inch map. A curving earthen bank abuts the E side of the E hut. A semicircular enclosure (CL005-296----) abuts the cashel at N. Other cashels lie c. 120m to the N (CL005-080----) and 90m to the SSE (CL005-079----). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 7 December 2022

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