What is recorded here
Indicated is a stone ringfort on a high Burren plateau in County Clare, Ireland. Its almost square wall encloses twenty metres of exposed ground, with a smaller stone-walled field attached at the east and meandering boundaries extending west. The shape suggests human craftsmanship rather than casual debris, yet no surviving account explains who built it, when they left it, or what the fort guarded.
On a high Burren plateau with grass and some scrub cover. An almost square enclosure (diam. 20m) with rounder corners and a slightly curved S side defined by a stone wall with a stone-walled field attached at E (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W), reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott. Visible on OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018). Some possibly contemporary meandering field walls extend W from close to the W perimeter of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 November 2021
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