Settlement cluster in Clonfert — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Na Fothraigh, the ruins, still lies beneath Cashman's field, throwing up ashes and firestones whenever a plough bites deep. The old town of Newmarket vanished from memory but never stopped breathing under the soil, waiting for steel to pull its hearths back into daylight. Ruins do not die; they pause, buried in ordinary ground, until someone disturbs them and they remember they were alive.

Bowman (2000, 81) records that a village was located in 'Mr. Cashman's land', about '400 yards [365m] West of Burial ground [CO022-052001-]...'. According to local information, the 'old town of Newmarket' was situated in Cashman's farm and was once linked to Clonfert graveyard by an old road which extended from the N side of the graveyard. Bowman (ibid.) also records that the name 'Na Fothraigh', meaning the ruins, which is 'applied to [a] field in P. Cashman's'. Ashes and hearths with firestones are visible at the W end of this field during ploughing. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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