Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Booley hut
Crumlin, County Clare, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.