What is recorded here

Indicated is a small stone ringfort on a gentle SW-facing slope in County Clare, marked on maps from 1897 and still standing within a large field system. Its double-faced wall encloses a subrectangular space barely large enough for a household, a hearth and a few sleeping places. A later drystone wall leans across the older perimeter, and animal entrances cut through at the north, southwest and west, suggesting the fort never stopped being used. The karst grass and rough pasture have softened its edges, but the stones still hold the shape of a place people lived, defended and remembered.

On a gentle SW-facing slope in a grass-covered karst landscape in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This small subrectangular cashel (int. dims. 15.7m E-W; 14.1m N-S; ext. dims. 21.1m N-S; 20m E-W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth c. 1-1.6m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 0.8m). The stones of the flush outer wall-face are quite large (L c. 0.5m; H 0.5m). Rubble (H 0.3-0.6m) is accumulated against the inner and outer wall-faces (total Wth 2-2.7m generally, max. 4.3m at S). A partially collapsed later drystone wall (Wth c. 0.5m; max. H 0.8m) is built over the cashel perimeter, mostly on the outer wall-face. There are animal entrances over the wall at N, SW and W. A hut site (CL009-241----) lies c. 102m to the ENE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 4 April 2022

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