Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Loughrask, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughrask
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11655, -9.13945
- SMR number
- CL002-056----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In meadow, on the level crest at the NE end of a low ridge from which ground falls gently away to NE to Lough Rask, c. 200m away. Not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but hachured on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A roughly circular earthen mound (surface diam. 4.5m N–S; 4.7m E–W; base diam. 10.4m N–S; 9.7m E–W; max. H 1.3–1.4m at E and S) with possible revetting along the outer base at N . Small field clearance stones are dumped at the base and on the sides elsewhere.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.