Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Feenagh (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feenagh (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11082, -9.20434
- SMR number
- CL002-033008-
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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
On a narrow and fairly level terrace in the W face of a steep ridge and surrounded by improved pastureland and situated among the field system (CL002-03001-) on the E side of the valley between Gleninagh ‘Mountain’ and Cappanawalla Hill, c. 44m upslope and N of the large internally terraced cashel ‘Caherfeenagh’ (CL002-033004-). Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). Indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with a solid line forming a rectangle and on the 1915 ed. as a solid line forming an oval. A subcircular area (int. dims. 6.7m E–W; 5.4m N–S) defined by a modern drystone wall overlying on older foundation line. Substantial cashel-like stones are visible on the ground (Wth 1.8m; H 0.2m) adjacent a gap to the W (Wth 2.5m). A blocked gap at N is also flanked in the lower courses by large cashel-like stones. A blocked ‘pooreen’ lies in the modern walling at E (Wth 0.6m; H 0.4m). This is likely a hut site related to the Caherfeenagh cashel now overlain by a modern wall converting it into an animal pen.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.