Lismweel, Cloran, Co. Galway

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Lismweel, Cloran, Co. Galway

On the crest of a ridge in the pastureland of Cloran, a broad circle of tumbled drystone walling marks out what was once a cashel, an early medieval stone enclosure of the kind used across Ireland as a defended farmstead or settlement.

It is not a dramatic ruin; the wall has collapsed to the point where the form is more felt than seen, the ground rising and dipping in a rough ring roughly thirty-two metres across. That modest diameter is enough to have enclosed a small cluster of buildings, likely timber or wattle structures that left no trace above ground, arranged around a central yard in the manner common to such sites throughout the west of Ireland.

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