What is recorded here
Killeenan is a stone ringfort where human hands built a circular home before the land forgot their names. It stands in County Clare as a cashel, a fortified place where people lived, defended themselves and left behind a shape the field still repeats. The stones do not explain themselves, but they preserve the fact that someone made this ground into a world small enough to know by heart.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
IndicatedFairy fort / stone ringfort · 146 yd
Enclosure in KilleenanEnclosure · 238 yd
Mollaneen Housefarm house · 1185 yd
Wall monument in MollaneenWall monument · 1395 yd
Bawn in Dysert (inchiquin By.)Bawn · 1443 yd
Ballygriffy WoodWood · 2.1 mi
Rock IslandIsland · 3.6 mi
Inchiquin IslandIslet · 3.7 mi
European ashEuropean ash · 4.3 mi
Poul na gollorCave · 4.9 mi