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Enclosure

Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Fanore More, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fanore More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.12293, -9.27422
SMR number
CL001-013001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in rough pasture on a ledge (Wth 60m) at the foot of a NW-facing cliff (H 7–8m) overlooking the Caher River and Fanore dunes. A roughly oval enclosure (int. dims. 21.2m E-W; 18.14m N-S) near the NE end of a complex of field walls, hut, and house sites (CL001-013001-to CL001-013006-). It is defined by a mixture of double-walling comprised of large blocks set on edge and natural outcropping rock at ENE and ESE. A partially blocked entrance at NNE is collapsed on its W side and formed by three large transversely laid blocks on its E side. Additional gaps occur at NE (Wth 0.6m) and SW (Wth 1m). It is depicted on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). A large boulder c. 25m to SSW and a cave entrance c. 60m SSW may have formed part of the complex. The cave entrance is partially blocked by a low wall.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 21 September 2020

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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