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Enclosure

Formoyle East, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Formoyle East, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Formoyle East
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured (1839)
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.11442, -9.23673
SMR number
CL002-027----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In rough grazing on a terrace on a SW-facing slope near the foot of Gleninagh Mountain, overlooking the Caher Valley and River. Listed as ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured as a rectangular enclosure on the 1842 OS 6-inch map. A rectangular enclosure (c. 32m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) is visible on Digital Globe ortho photography (2011-12) and on OS orthophotos (2013-18) integrated into an associated field system (CL002-027001-) predating the modern field system. A second possible rectangular cashel (CL002-026----) is located c. 60m NW and two circular cashels (CL002-028---- and CL002-029----) are located c. 140m SE and c. 250m SE.

The following image is uploaded:
CL002-027----_01.jpg OSi Aerial Premium orthophoto 2012-2018

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 2 December 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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