Enclosure, Commons, Co. Clare
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Enclosures
In the townland of Commons, County Clare, an enclosure sits in the landscape, recorded and classified but not yet fully described.
Enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish countryside, and also among the most varied. The term covers everything from the circular earthen banks of early medieval farmsteads to the stone-walled boundaries of later agricultural use, and without further detail it is difficult to say precisely what period or purpose this particular example represents. That ambiguity is itself a quiet curiosity: a monument significant enough to be catalogued, yet still waiting for its story to be properly told.
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Commons, Co. Clare
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