What is recorded here

Indicated is a subcircular cashel in County Clare, Ireland, where a moss-covered double-faced stone wall still circles a low rise above a shallow ravine. The enclosure measures thirty-point-nine metres north-south and twenty-eight-point-three metres east-west, large enough for a livestock pen later built against its inner wall. It appears on the first edition map of 1842 and remains listed as an enclosure today, suggesting the site has continued to mark boundary, shelter or memory long before modern records named it.

On a low E-W rise on a N-facing slope in partly overgrown rough pasture, with wide views W-N and partially surrounded by a shallow ravine (Wth 20m; D c. 3m) at SE-SW. Within a field system (CL009-166001-). Indicated on the first edition (1842) and hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (30.9m N-S; 28.3m E-W) is defined by a moss-covered, double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.8m at S; int. H 0-0.5m; max. ext. H 1.4m at W) and associated collapsed walling (combined Wth 2-3.5m). The outer wall-face is visible all around although somewhat obscured by overgrowth at E. At S, a later drystone wall overlies the inner wall-face. There is a livestock gap at ENE. The interior contains a later livestock pen (int. dims. 9m E-W; 5m N-S) built against the inner wall face at N, and there is an overgrown subcircular cairn (diam. 4m; H 0.3m) at S just inside the enclosing wall. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 May 2023

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