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Hut site

Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Oughtdarra, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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