Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Murrooghkilly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murrooghkilly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12994, -9.25331
- SMR number
- CL001-030----
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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
On a ledge on the SW slopes of Murrooghkilly hill. A semicircular enclosure (c. 35m N-S; c. 22m E-W) with it’s straight side at E formed by the face of a ridge. Other enclosures are conjoined at N and S and some possible hut sites are enclosed. Noted on Digital Globe (2011-13) and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.