Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, with good views in all directions. An enclosure (LI050-018001-) lies to the immediate W and a cairn (LI050-019----) lies 45m to the S. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Westropp (1919, 21) described it as one of ‘The conjoined rings of Baunteen, with a cairn near them, lying below the great “Harps” formed by coombs and parallel watercourses on the flanks of the Galtees.’ Recorded by the ASI in 1999, as enclosure B of two enclosures (LI050-018001-), described as a raised circular platform (diam. 20m) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.6m; H 1.6m) with fosse (D 0.6m; Wth at top 5.7m; Wth at base 2.4m) from N-E, intersected at SW by a drain running NW-SE. Overgrown interior level and dry. Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 6 November 2021

References

Westropp, T.J. 1919 The ancient places of assembly in the counties Limerick and Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 1-24.