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Booley hut

Crumlin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Booley hut, Crumlin, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crumlin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.07610, -9.32085
SMR number
CL004-027006-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a high (between 600’ and 700’ contours), level terrace on the NW slopes of Knockaunsmountain (OD 983’). A second possible booley hut (CL004-027010-) stands within an enclosure (CL004-027009-) located c. 12m to NE.
A circular, drystone structure (int. diams. 1.55m N-S; 1.5m E-W) with roughly corbelled walling (T 0.5-0.7m; int. H c. 1.1m; ext. H 1.4m) supporting a flat slab which forms the roof. A low (H 1m) outwardly splaying doorway opens to the NNE (int. Wth 0.44m; ext. Wth 0.7m).

See attached image: CL004-027006-_1 Viewed from NNE.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 19 October 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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