Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtmama
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Greencolly Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Greencolly Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.12568, -9.02637
- SMR number
- CL003-049----
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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
On the summit of a hill right on the Clare-Galway county boundary. Marked on the 1838 edition of the 1st OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 60m N-S) opening onto a cliff edge to the W. Evidently levelled by the time of the 1922 edition of the map when the words ‘(Site of)’ are appended. There are no visible remains at ground level. A small cairn of boulders, most likely a trigonometrical cairn, occupies the site. See GA112-028----.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.