Inishatirra

Inishatirra is a small island in Lough Eidin, County Roscommon, where a rectangular enclosure still marks the edge of a medieval moated site. Someone dug ditches and raised banks around a plot barely twenty metres wide, treating precious island ground as though it needed defending. The compact space suggests livestock, storage, or a household annexe for the larger farmstead beside it. Whatever the purpose, the builder believed even a corner of that little island was worth claiming and protecting.