What is recorded here

Indicated is a submerged Claret fort where reeds still choke the ditch and hide the room where people lived. It stands barely twenty metres across in marshy pasture, close enough to touch the boundary stream and far enough from road noise to keep its quiet. The earth bank has worn to a low scar, but the shape remains clear when rain fills the fosse and the whole circle floats on water.

In low-lying marshy pasture overlooked by higher ground to N, c. 38m N of a SW-flowing stream that forms the townland boundary with Ballyellery and with views across Liscannor Bay to the S. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (19.6m E-W; 18m N-S) is defined by the remains of an inner earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.15-0.55m) from W-NW, which has been reduced to a low scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere, and by a shallow outer fosse (Wth 2.2m; ext. D 0.15-0.2m) which is water-logged and filled with reeds and rushes. The interior is level and covered in reeds. An enclosure (CL015-150----) lies c.105m to the NNE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 7-10-2025

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