Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Formoyle East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11588, -9.24161
- SMR number
- CL002-025002-
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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 a level terrace of rough grazing (500’ OD) near the foot of Gleninagh Mountain with panoramic views over the Caher valley to E and through the Khyber Pass to Galway Bay at NW. A small poorly preserved oval enclosure (int. dims. 35m E–W; 29.6m N–S) defined by a low overgrown stony spread (Wth 2.1–2.3m; H 0.3–0.5m), enhanced by a scarp (H 0.5m; Wth 0.9m) along its S side. A children’s burial ground (CL002-025001-) lies in its SE sector and a later field wall runs on top of its bank from S clockwise to NNW. Swan (1991, 108) recorded a bullaun and destroyed structure at this location, and suggested it was an early ecclesiastical site ‘degenerated…to the status of a killeen’. It is possible he confused this site with the bullaun (CL002-063001-) and church site (CL002-063002-) c.300m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
References
Swan, D.L. 1991 The churches, monasteries and burial grounds of the Burren. In J. W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds.), The book of the Burren, 95-118. Tír Eolas, Newtownlynch, Kinvara, Co. Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.