What is recorded here
Indicated is a trapezoidal stone ringfort on a west-facing slope above the Caher River in County Clare, its bank still marking a space roughly forty-five metres across. cattle may have grazed the pasture around it while people forgot the fort itself, reducing ancient walls to ordinary stones under their hooves. The shape resists the circular expectation of most Clare ringforts, suggesting its builders valued angle and sight over symmetry.
On a W-facing slope in the Caher River valley in pasture. A trapezoidal enclosure (c. 45m W-E; c. 38m N-S) defined by a stony bank visible at ITM 517638, 706803 on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 May 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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