Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtmama
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11259, -9.02573
- SMR number
- CL003-036007-
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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
In the NW quadrant of the hexagonal enclosure (CL003-036001-) on the E summit of Turlough Hill. Westropp (1905, 226) shows a hut site on a plan some 30m in from the enclosure wall, SE of a hut site abutting the enclosure wall (CL003-036006-). A number of other hut sites abut the inner face of the large enclosure at various points around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 March 2020
References
Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 1 – The Eastern Border. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 205-29.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.