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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, 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
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.05913, -9.33931
SMR number
CL004-057007-

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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

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

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

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