Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Knockycallanan,oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.