Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Murrooghkilly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murrooghkilly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12832, -9.24034
- SMR number
- CL002-072----
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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 a small SSW–NNE canyon between the two peaks of Gleninagh ‘Mountain’. A rectangular drystone corbelled structure (ext. dims. 3.2m ESE–WNW; 5.15m NNE–SSW; int. dims 2.45m ESE–WNW; 4.5m NNE–SSW) built up against a low W-facing rock face. The walls (T 0.6m) begin to corbel in at 1.3m H and there is doorway (Wth 0.8m) in the W side of the N wall. There is an enclosure (CL002-004001-) and associated field system (CL002-004002-) located c. 100m to the ESE, another enclosure (CL002-003----) and field system (CL002-003001-) c. 300m WSW and a mill (CL002-024----) of notably similar construction c.380m SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 14 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.