Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtdarra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.05913, -9.33931
- SMR number
- CL004-057007-
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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
Curving field boundaries around Oughtdarra church (CL004-057001-) on the OS 25-inch and 1915 OS 6-inch maps may indicate a former ecclesiastical enclosure. A portion from SSE to N (chord c. 63m) some 33m W of the church is still extant as a boundary and is visible on Digital Globe. Cunningham (1980, 16) also described Oughtdarra church (CL004-057001-) as sited within a seven-acre walled enclosure, part of which was locally called the Orchard. That enclosure (c. 237m E-W; c. 123m N-S) is depicted on the OS 1840 map and may represent later boundaries around the site.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 10 October 2022
References
Cunningham, G. 1980 Burren journey West. Shannonside Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.