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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Knockycallanan,Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Knockycallanan, Oughtmama, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockycallanan,Oughtmama
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.11659, -9.03796
SMR number
CL003-032007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

At the SE end of a large fertile valley at the N foot of Turlough Hill. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved enclosure (est. diam. 270m) defined by a tumbled wall (Wth at N 2.8m; H 0.2-0.4m) traceable at N and S where later field boundaries follow its curving line. This enclosure encompasses the entire ecclesiastical complex at Oughtmama. A smaller enclosure (CL003-032001-) lies within enclosing the two closely associated more westerly churches (CL003-032002- and CL003-032003-). The area between the two enclosures, especially N of the churches has been subdivided into narrow striped fields. One wall acts as a townland boundary and extends from the inner enclosure to the outer. This may represent the line of an older internal subdivision.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 19 February 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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