Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Faunarooska (rathborney Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faunarooska (rathborney Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09471, -9.20225
- SMR number
- CL005-014008-
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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 improved pasture c. 50m SE of the Rathborney River, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). A sub-circular hut site (diam. 9.8m) is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.3m). Rubble is heaped against the exterior of the bank from N to ENE and the ground outside to the N may have been disturbed. The interior slopes down steeply towards the E and contains whitethorns. An enclosure (CL005-014007-) is located c. 60m NW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.