What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined double-walled cashel on a hazel-choked slope beside the Rathborney River, its stones so levelled and tangled with later walls that the original shape barely emerges. The townland name may mean slope of the quarrel, hinting that the site has long attracted conflict, stubbornness or forgotten argument rather than quiet reverence. What remains is a ghost of boundary, a circle drawn and erased, still resisting the field that swallowed it.

Under hazel scrub on an E-facing slope c. 100m W of the Rathborney River, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Westropp (1901, 277) noted it as overgrown, ‘much levelled’ and ‘confused by modern walls’. He also noted that a possible translation of the townland name ‘slope of the quarrel’ might be related to the ‘cahers’ (ibid.) in this townland. A poorly preserved, sub-circular, bivallate cashel (est. orig. ext. diam. c. 43m; int. diam. 24.6m N-S) defined by an inner wall (Wth 1.5-3.4m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.6-1.1m), a fosse (Wth 2-2.5m) and a second, outer wall (Wth 3m; H 0.6-1m). The inner wall survives from NW-SE while the outer wall only survives from NE-SW. Facing stones (av. H 0.25m) survive in both walls but are best preserved (max. H 1m) in the outer wall from NE to SW. The interior contains a rectangular house site, orientated N-S, in the N-half and a trackway and later wall traverse the site SSE-NNW. Westropp, T.J. 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part 2. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-92. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 2 August 2022

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