Enclosure, Killerk, Co. Clare
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Enclosures
In the townland of Killerk, in County Clare, there is an enclosure old enough to have been formally recorded as an archaeological monument, yet quiet enough that almost nothing about it has made its way into the public record.
It sits in that particular category of Irish field antiquity that is noticed, mapped, and then, for the time being, left to speak for itself.
Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet most varied monuments in the Irish landscape. The term covers a broad range of features, from the circular earthen banks of a rath or ringfort, which typically served as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period, to more irregular enclosures of uncertain date that might mark anything from a burial ground to a stock pen. Without further detail specific to Killerk, the precise character of this one remains open. Clare is a county with a dense archaeological fabric, and Killerk is a small rural townland where the ground itself tends to hold more history than any written source yet records about it.
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