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
- 53.11949, -9.27654
- SMR number
- CL001-016007-
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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
Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). Situated on a very rough clint and grike pavement terrace overlooking a cashel (CL001-012001-) c. 60m to the NW. A rectangular drystone structure (int. dims. 3.7m N-S; 1.2m E-W) built of flags and slabs, some laid horizontally and some vertically (H 1m; av. Wth 0.5m). There is a gap (Wth 0.6m) at the N end of the E wall. At S one course of corbelling projects inwards for 0.2m. A small area of rough grazing and heather lies immediately to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Turf standunder 1 mi
- Turf standunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.