Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Formoyle East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11967, -9.24853
- SMR number
- CL002-022----
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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
On steep W facing slope under hazel overgrowth, overlooking and c. 150m NE of the Caher River. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1842 OS 6-inch map but indicated as a subcircular field on the 1915 ed. An arc of the enclosing element is visible SW-NW on Digital Globe ortho image (2011-13).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.