Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Crumlin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crumlin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.07735, -9.34644
- SMR number
- CL004-023----
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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 a level pasture terrace at the NW foot of a steep limestone ridge, only c. 30m from the seashore to the W. Located at the SW-end of a series of relatively modern, improved pasture, roughly rectangular ladder-fields, which it may pre-date? Not recorded on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map but indicated on the later, Cassini edition (1915).
An almost circular area (int. diams. 29m N-S; 28.8m WNW-ESE) is defined by a loosely constructed, single dry- stone wall (H c. 0.8-1m; T 0.3-0.6m; max. T c. 1m SSE-S). An entrance gap (Wth 3m) and associated scarp is visible at NNE. The enclosure is abutted by later field walls at N, SSE, SSW, WSW and WNW.
See attached CL004-023----_1: overall view from higher slopes to SSW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 30 September 2022
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.