Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Loughrask, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughrask
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11571, -9.12670
- SMR number
- CL002-097----
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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 an unreclaimed island of scrub in an otherwise reclaimed area. A possible oval enclosure (diam. c. 53m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with an entrance at SE, overgrown with gorse and scrub visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). Noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.