What is recorded here

Toormore Fort is a subcircular earthen ringfort on a south-facing Clare hillside, its low bank still marking a boundary twenty metres from a working farmyard. The earth rises barely sixty centimetres inside but drops a metre outside, creating a shallow bowl where rain gathers and grass grows thick. People may have lived there before maps named it, yet the fort remains small enough to walk around in a minute and quiet enough to forget until dusk.

On a S-facing hillside in well-drained pasture, c. 20m to the SE of a farmyard. Hachured and named ‘Toormore Fort’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (ext. dims. 21.2m N-S; 18.5m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank and scarp. The bank (Wth c. 2.3-3m at base) is best preserved at NW and NE (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.3-0.45m) but is very low at W (H 0.15m). Only a scarp is visible at S (H 1.1m). A slight lowering of the bank at E may indicate an entrance. The interior slopes to the S. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 11 May 2022

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