Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the Carran plateau, immediately W of Carran village. A large subrectangular area (c. 150m E-W; c. 140m N-S), one of 5 prehistoric enclosures on the plateau (Jones et al. 2011, 46, fig.4, Enclosure 3). It is defined by walls similar to another of the five enclosures c. 1.4km to the SE (CL010-015001-) dated to the Late Bronze Age (Gibson 2007, 1-29). A number of later field walls extending NE-SW are superimposed. Two trackways or droveways lead off it but it is unclear if these are original features. Three cairns and two ring-barrows are located within 300m to the N, SE and S. (Hennigar 2008, 63-8; Jones et al. 2011, 44-9)

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CL010-232----_01.jpg OSi Aerial premium ortho photo 2013-2018

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 17 May 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.

Hennigar, C. 2008 The late Bronze Age settlement landscape of the Burren. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.

Gibson, B. 2007 The hillslope enclosures of the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 107C, 1-29.