Earthwork, Tullyvoghan, Co. Clare

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Earthwork, Tullyvoghan, Co. Clare

In the townland of Tullyvoghan, in County Clare, an earthwork sits in the landscape largely unannounced.

The term earthwork covers a broad range of constructed or modified ground features, from ancient ringforts and enclosures to field boundaries and burial mounds, and without further detail it is difficult to say precisely what form this one takes. That ambiguity is itself part of the story. Many such features survive in the Irish countryside as low humps or curved banks, easily mistaken for natural undulation, quietly outlasting the civilisations that shaped them.

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