Enclosure, Knockmore, Co. Clare
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Enclosures
At Knockmore in County Clare, there is a recorded enclosure that exists, for the moment, almost entirely as a designation rather than a description.
It has been catalogued, assigned a monument number, and marked on the landscape of Irish archaeological heritage, yet the details that would normally accompany such a record, its dimensions, its date, its likely function, remain formally unconfirmed in any publicly accessible form.
Enclosures of this kind in County Clare might be anything from a ringfort, the circular earthen or stone enclosure that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period, to a cashel, which is the drystone equivalent common across the Burren and its fringes, to something considerably older or harder to categorise. Clare is dense with such monuments, many of them still holding their shape in the corners of fields or along townland boundaries, and Knockmore sits within a county where the ground rarely gives nothing away. Without confirmed survey detail, though, this particular site remains in a state of suspended identity, recorded but not yet fully described in the public record.