Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtdarra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06538, -9.34457
- SMR number
- CL004-051002-
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
In the NNE extent of a promontory fort (CL004-051----). The NE rampart is variously depicted by Westropp (1905, 344, 349) with three hut sites abutting the inner wall or with three hut sites abutting the wall and a fourth smaller hut site located to the SSW. Westropp (1905, 346) notes that ‘inside the wall are traces of hut-enclosures nearly levelled’ and Cunningham (1980, 18) also refers to ‘the remains of houses inside’. On field inspection in 1998, only one hut site (7m NW-SE; 5.5m NE-SW; H 0.5m; T 0.5m) was visible.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 13 June 2022
References
Cunningham, G. 1980 Burren journey West. Shannonside Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation.
Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 2 - west Corcomroe. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 342-61.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 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.