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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12612, -9.26205
- SMR number
- CL001-031----
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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
In an unreclaimed area on the SW slopes of Murrooghkilly hill. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 26m) defined by a stone wall possibly built on an older enclosing feature. A subcircular annexe (diam. c. 38m) is conjoined at NW. This lies within a large field system (CL001-033----) extending over 1km between the Caher River and Murrooghkilly hill. 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.