Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the E end of Coolnatullagh Valley. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Indicated c. 30m to the E as ‘Enclosure fort unrecorded’ on a map annotated by T. Coffey in 1994 (SMR file). This enclosure (diam. c. 50m) was surveyed by Olive Carey (2008) and forms part of ‘Farm C2’ in Jones et al. (2011). It is defined at W by the line of the modern field boundary, at N and E by a low curving mound wall and at S by the exposed footing of a wall having some of its internal facing stones set on edge (Carey 2008, 57). A possible burial mound (CL006-098003-) lies in the NW quadrant. Mound walls in the vicinity are too fragmentary to enable the identification of a coherent field system (Carey 2008, 54-62; Jones et al. 2011, 41).

Revised by: Mary Tunney

Date of revision: 12 April 2016

References

Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.

Carey, O. 2008 Coolnatullagh – A final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age secular and ritual landscape in the eastern Burren. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.