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
- 53.08166, -9.31096
- SMR number
- CL004-034----
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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 400’ and 500’ contours) level terrace with good views over lower ground from WNW-NE and overlooked by steeper rocky ground from E to W. Within a large field system (CL004-098----). Not recorded on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map but indicated on the later Cassini edition (1915 OS) . Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly square area (int. dims. 38m WSW-ENE; 38m NNW-SSE) is defined by a drystone wall which varies in thickness (T 1.1m in WSW; 1.3m in SSE; 1.5m in ESE) and height (max. ext. H 2.2m in NW; 0.6-1m in N and E) and has rounded corners at NW and NE. Low, inner wall facing (H 0.1-0.2m) is visible intermittently where it has been exposed by livestock poaching and the S-limits, especially at the SE and SW corners are heavily overgrown with blackthorn and briar. A poorly preserved, rectangular structure (c. 16m ENE-WSW; c. 6m NNW-SSE) abuts the enclosing wall in the NE sector of the interior, and a broad, low bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.7-0.9m) runs NE-SW in the W interior.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 25 October 2022
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