What is recorded here

Cahermackirilla holds a tiny circular hut on a high Clare plateau, its grass-covered stone wall enclosing barely enough room for one person and a small fire. A later drystone wall circles part of the site, and a separate small enclosure sits at its west end, suggesting the place served more than temporary shelter. The nearby cairn and standing stone imply that people returned here across generations, marking height, ownership or memory on open pasture.

On a high point on a plateau in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This subcircular hut site (int. dims. 4.4m NE-SW; 3.3m NW-SE) is defined by a grass-covered stone wall (Wth 0.6-0.8m) and associated spill. The hut site is partly encircled (15-22m away) between NW and E by a later drystone wall, with stones laid with their long axis across the wall. At its W end is a small enclosure (int. dims. 6.1m E-W; 4.2m N-S; ext. dims. 8m E-W; 5m N-S) defined by walls of the same type. As part of an investigation of the monuments in the immediate vicinity, Grant (1995; see also Grant 2004; 2006) referred to this drystone wall and enclosure as ‘Enclosure H’. A cairn (CL009-084010-) lies c. 15.5m to the SSE and there is a standing stone (CL009-084032-) c. 34m to the SW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 3 May 2022

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