Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gragan West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragan West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06616, -9.19792
- SMR number
- CL005-113----
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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
On elevated rough pasture in mulitiperiod field system (CL005-115001-), with views in all directions but most extensive to the W. A subcircular enclosure (32m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a bank of stone (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.3; ext. H 0.8m) from SE-WSW, a low scarp from WSW-NW and a straight wall from NW to NNE. Some occasional outer-facing survives (H 0.5m at S). There are foundations of a house of indeterminate date (CL005-113002-) NE of centre and two enclosures (CL005-202001- and CL005-202002-) lie c. 90m to the SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.