Field boundary

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on open, undulating commonage, much of it cutaway bog, to W of Knocknaveen: the walls lie between the basins labelled ‘Lough Leinapollbauty’ and ‘Lough Merrignagh’ on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps. Two stretches of ruinous walls were identified, as follows:
a) from SE side of Lough Leinapollbonty, a low earthen (sod) bank runs in a meandering fashion for c. 100m, on a roughly NNW–SSE axis, across a low ridge to another closed basin. It terminates at the edges of both basins quite abruptly. At its southern end it meets a line of boulders running WSW–ENE along the northern side of the second basin. Both of these stretches look recent, possibly of eighteenth- to nineteenth-century date. The line of the bank appears to pick-up again for a short distance at the foot of Malmore, running on same NNW–SSE axis.
b) A line of boulders meanders along a WSW– ENE axis for a distance of c. 60m. They roughly follow the north-western edge of a shallow peat basin (now largely cutaway) but are them- selves apparently embedded in the peat. At the east-north-eastern end it peters out, while at the west-south-western end it appears to turn sharply to NNW and run uphill before fading out.

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.