What is recorded here

Indicated is a rectangular cashel in County Clare, Ireland, where broken stone still marks a living boundary on elevated ground. Its rounded corners and surviving facing suggest people shaped the rock before forgetting the exact purpose of the chamber. The view reaches NE over Ballyvaghan and Galway Bay, while the rest of the horizon holds back, as if the fort keeps more than it reveals.

On elevated ground but with restricted views, except to the NE over Ballyvaghan and Galway Bay, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as a ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved rectangular cashel (32m N-S; 27.5m E-W) with rounded corners, defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.8-3.5m) with patches of inner facing (H 0.4-0.7m) and outer facing (H 0.35-0.85m) surviving. The original wall thickness (c. 1.5m) is readable near the S end of the E wall. Possible structures occur in the NE, NW and SE corners (CL005-077003-, CL005-077004- and CL005-077005-). Later field walls extend N from the NE and NW corners. Another cashel (CL005-077001-) lies c. 20m to the N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 5 December 2022

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