What is recorded here

Enclosure in Caher (connell) is a hidden earthen ring on a marshy slope above the River Feale, still marked by a curving bank and scattered stones though briars and bracken have swallowed most of it. Cattle have worn parts of the bank flat while reaching for water, yet the shape remains visible enough to suggest a deliberate boundary rather than a random heap of soil. The place may have marked a home, a shrine, a burial ground or a seasonal meeting point, but the missing evidence leaves that purpose suspended in the land itself.

In rough marshy pasture, on S-facing slope falling directly to N bank of River Feale; enclosure bordered on E side by stream flowing towards river. Most of site is covered by dense overgrowth of briars and bracken but curving earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.7m) can be traced ENE->SE where it becomes scarped edge SE->SW. Loose stones lie scattered along external bank face at ENE. Bank is denuded by cattle accessing stream. There appears to be a gentle rise upwards from enclosing element towards centre. No evidence for burial plots or markers evident though most of interior impenetrable. Depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 25m N-S) but enclosing element depicted only E->SW on 1924 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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