Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockycallanan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockycallanan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10854, -9.03670
- SMR number
- CL003-053----
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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 E portion of the exposed summit of Turlough Hill, in association with a large cluster of hut sites (CL006-017001-) to the N and W that avoid the ‘enclosure’ area and a large cairn (CL006-017002-) at the W end of the summit. A multivallate enclosure or labyrinth-style feature (diam. c. 35m), irregular in plan and comprising four low, partly concentric ‘banks’ (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.2m) of gravel and slabs, discovered through aerial survey and difficult to see at ground level. The banks are in some parts very fragmentary, poorly defined and overlapping while well defined in others. This is likely to have had a ceremonial function. (Bergh 2008; Berg, Ó Maoldúin and McCarthy 2016)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 December 2017
References
Bergh, S., Ó Maoldúin, R. and McCarthy, N. 2016 The archaeology of Turlough Hill. In The Irish Quaternary Association Field Guide No. 33, 18-25
Bergh, S. 2008 Surveying Turlough Hill. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project, 22-30. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.