Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

On a spot height (236ft/72m), in pasture, 205m SW of a townland boundary with Cloghnamanagh. Ring-barrow (LI031-033----) lies 175m to NE and ringfort (LI031-029----) lies 200m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (39m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) which is traversed across the NE edge by a field boundary running NW-SE and across the NW edge by a field boundary running NE-SW. Referred to by O’Kelly (1944, 49) as Earthwork Type A and described as: ‘An almost circular platform which has not got a fosse. It is considerably higher at the S side than at the N. On the E edge of the platform is a large limestone flag, which may have been standing erect at one time. A former land-owner decided to use it as a gate post and bored a small hole through the stone near one end. When the flag was moved bones were found below it and it was then decided to return it to its original position. Local tradition holds that it was a burial ground’. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 2 November 2020

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.