What is recorded here

Indicated is a forgotten cashel in County Clare where dense hazel has swallowed the stone ring and hidden its entrance from human memory. The fortress may have held children, lovers or fleeing families before the green world reclaimed it, but those stories have vanished with the people who told them. What remains is a low moss-covered ridge of collapsed stone, wide enough to walk beside but too broken to call a wall. The land has not lost the place; it has stopped sharing it.

On level ground, very overgrown with dense hazel scrub. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996), and as only in Cragballyconoal townland. A very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. dims. 32m N–S; 30m E–W) defined by a low moss-covered spread of collapsed stone (Wth 1.7–4m; ext. H 0–0.8m; int. H 0.2–0.4m) with no obvious inner or outer facing-stones visible and no obvious trace of an original entrance. A later drystone-built townland boundary wall overlies the older enclosure line from N–SSE. The interior is level, apparently featureless but almost completely overgrown with hazel. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 July 2021

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