Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Aughinish (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughinish (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16038, -9.08000
- SMR number
- CL003-010002-
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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 remote and exposed location on the SW shore of Aughinish Island. A curving arc of bank (L 18m; Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m), noted on inspection of 26 June 2007, c. 10m to the E of Aughinish church (CL003-010001-) may represent the remains of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL003-010002-). It is covered in long grass. Its line is not evident elsewhere on the ground.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 28 April 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.