Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Turf stand
Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanore More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11704, -9.27739
- SMR number
- CL001-016004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as ‘Cleit’ in the RMP (1996). On a narrow terrace of scree and loose pavement. A rectangular drystone-built structure (int. dims. 6.2m NE-SW; Wth 1m) of mixed flat and vertical slabs and blocks. The NE end is partially robbed out. The wall (av. H 0.5m; Wth 0.3-0.5m) has a maximum height of 0.8m at SW where two courses of inwardly projecting corbelling flags survive. A small hollow (14m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE), filled with rough grass and heather lies immediately SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2015
Nearby in the register
- Turf standunder 1 mi
- Turf standunder 1 mi
- Turf standunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.