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Hut site

Craggagh, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Craggagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09594, -9.29682
SMR number
CL004-016035-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In the centre of ‘Craggagh fort’, a large poorly preserved cashel (CL004-016002-). A roughly circular hut site (diam. c. 8m), defined by a low wall (H 0.4m) with no discernible entrance. A wall extends E from its SE side and a later field wall runs SW–NE over its NW side. An E–W souterrain (CL004-016045-) is located to its SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 28 April 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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