Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Derreen South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreen South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.07928, -9.29030
- SMR number
- CL004-042----
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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 the level, upper (between 700’ and 800’ contours) NE slope of Knockauns Mountain (OD 983’) in improved rough grazing and within a large field system (CL004-098----). Indicated on both the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and the later Cassini edition (1915). Probably referred to by Westropp (1901, 11) as one of, ‘… four ring-walls [possibly along with CL004-039----, CL004-040---- and CL004-039041----], about 100 feet [c. 30m] in diameter … three … levelled; the fourth … nearly gone.’
Recorded on the OS 25-inch map as an irregularly oval-shaped area (est. diams. c. 30m E-W; c. 26m N-S) defined by an enclosing wall. No visible surface trace of walling survives but a very faint bank, covered in meadowsweet, between N and NE and a definite counter-scarp (H 0.8m) from WSW to NW appear to follow an enclosing line around a grass-covered interior.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 7 November 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.