Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Faunarooska (rathborney Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faunarooska (rathborney Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09505, -9.20343
- SMR number
- CL005-014007-
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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 overgrowth at the E-foot of a steep limestone escarpment in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Classified as a possiblr enclosure based on the representation on the Cassini Edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map which depicts a hachured oval area (est. diams. c. 28m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) overlain by a field wall. While the earlier OS 25-inch map identifies the feature as ‘Sheepfold’, in several instances in Co. Clare an older enclosure was reused as a sheepfold. Accordingly, this record has been classified as Enclosure - possible.
Compiled by: Gearoid Conroy
Date of upload: 8 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.