Field boundary

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on open undulating commonage to N of the escarpment at Leck. The walls lie just NE of the saddle point dividing the Dorree River catchment (to W) from the Lough Avullin catchment (to E). A number of ruined, meandering walls are visible as intermittent series of upright or partially collapsed conglomerate slabs and boulders, with smaller stones scattered between them (Wth c. 1m × H c. 0.50m max.). The most prominent is a wall running on a roughly NE–SW axis that appears to terminate at the foot of Leck at its south-western end. Its termination lies immediately NE of the saddle at a point where it is cut through by the old Green Road. Only c. 5m of the wall is visible to S of the road. From here it can be traced for almost 200m following a meandering NE course before terminating in a scatter of boulders at the head of a steep-sided gully that drains towards Lough Avullin. At a point 80m from its south-western end, a second wall branches off from it running on NW–SE axis. After c. 40m it too terminates among a scatter of boulders at the head of a small peat basin.

The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.

Date of upload: 4 December 2018

References

Gosling, P., Manning, C. and Waddell, J. (eds.) 2007 New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5: Archaeology. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy.