What is recorded here

Mortons Port, a rocky cove on the northwest Clare coast, is a place where the land stops arguing with the sea and becomes a corridor for it. The corridor carries rainwater, tide, sediment and life between the Atlantic and the inland rivers. It also carries memory. That is why the port still feels like a threshold rather than an ordinary harbour.

At the edge of a rocky shelf in pasture, jutting NW from a NW-facing slope. Within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). A subcircular cashel (c. 35.5m E-W; 33.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown stone wall is visible in aerial imagery (Digital Globe 2011-2013; OSi MapGenie 2013-2018). The site is defended from S to NNW by a natural craggy bluff. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-057002-_01.jpg Aerial view from N (ASI aerial photo, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 October 2022

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