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
- 53.12801, -9.23818
- SMR number
- CL002-004001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Situated in a remote level terrace on a S-facing slope with bare rock outcrop and scree upslope to N and downslope to S. Visible on Digital Globe 2011-13 and on Ordnance Survey orthophoto 2013-2018. A subcircular enclosure (c. 80m N-S; c. 90m E-W) defined by a stone wall with a number of possible hut sites abutting the interior of the enclosing wall. The enclosure lies within an associated field system (CL002-004002-). A possibly later enclosure (CL002-004----) lies within the S half of the large enclosure. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maolduin.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL002-004001-_01.jpg Ordnance Survey orthophoto 2013-2018.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.