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Enclosure in Drummeen East

Enclosure
Enclosure in Drummeen East
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Drummeen East holds the northernmost of six ringforts strung along a Clare ridge, its thirty-four-metre circle still sharp enough to break the pasture. That much is visible from above, but the lives inside remains imagination: perhaps a family, perhaps a guardian post watching the line of forts stretch south. The nearby ring-barrow waits sixty seconds' walk away, old enough to make the enclosure feel like a younger guard standing beside a dead ancestor.
On the low NE slope of a NE-SW ridge in pasture. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 34m) defined by a scarp visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on Google Earth (imagery date10 February 2021) reported to the National Monuments Service by Jean-Charles Caillère. This is the most NE of a line of six ringforts along the ridge. A ring-barrow (CL041-041----) lies c. 153m to the SW. The following image has been uploaded: CL041-197----_01.jpg Google Earth image 10 February 2021 Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 January 2022

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