Inch Ringfort accepted into the Adopt a Monument Scheme
Inch Ringfort has been selected for inclusion in the Heritage Council’s Adopt a Monument Programme. This innovative programme offers the Inch community group direct access to expertise, mentoring and support to help them to protect the ring fort for future generations and promote their local heritage.
Just eight historic monuments across Ireland will benefit from this scheme and the resulting expertise and mentoring in 2025.
Located beside the National School in Inch, County Clare, this ringfort has enormous potential to engage school children with the past. Currently overgrown and inaccessible, Inch Tidy Village, in partnership with Inch National School, want to understand more about the history and ecology of the site. This project received funding under the Community Monument Fund in 2025.
The monument is a uni-vallate, earthen ringfort which was once the homestead of a local farming group and of a type common in the locality. It was probably built in the early centuries AD and inhabited up to the medieval period. The interior of the fort appears level and is densely overgrown to the extent that access is not possible.
Inch Tidy Village wants to manage the site for site conservation, community access, and as a heritage and local history project for the local school children. Working with Clare County Council, the group has researched similar projects in Borrisokane and Baltimore which have significant public recognition and interaction, and which they hope to learn from.
Congella McGuire, Heritage Officer, Clare County Council, said, “Clare County Council is delighted to have been able to collaborate with the local community and the National School in Inch so that the monument will benefit from the expertise offered as part of the Adopt a Monument scheme. This is a great example of the scope and opportunity to learn from archaeology by exploring the ancient history of the local ring fort.”
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