What is recorded here

Lios an Boirnín still holds a square cave mouth on a steep Clare slope, waiting for someone brave enough to stop pretending the ground is ordinary. The ringfort has watched herds move across good pasture since before maps learned its name, yet the small dark chamber remains untouched and unexplained. Perhaps it served as a hiding place during storms or a quiet chamber for thought, but that much is still guesswork. What is certain is that the earth itself shaped an entrance and has kept it closed to everyone who passed without looking down.

On good pastureland, near the top of a low but moderately steep NE-facing slope within a ringfort (CL005-004----). The ringfort is hachured and named ‘Lissavorneen’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios an Boirnín on Robinson’s map (1977). The Man-made underground passage is not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but is indicated and named ‘cave’ on the 1915 ed. A square depression (1m x 1m; D 0.7m) with some drystone walling on its S side is visible in the SW sector of the ringfort. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

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