What is recorded here

Cloontemple enclosure was a 50m oval fort on a Limerick hillside, mapping its curve before plough and pasture erased it. It stood below the brow where shadow falls at noon, perhaps marking territory or simply giving shape to the slope. Forgetting is not the same as losing; the land keeps the weight of what it covered.

In pasture, on NNW-facing slope into valley, immediately below brow of hill. Monument, depicted as oval embanked enclosure (c. 50m SW-NE; c. 30m SE-NW) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Described in 1840 (OSNB, No 85, 229) as 'a fort ... named Paddock fort'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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