Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garracloon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garracloon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06471, -9.13450
- SMR number
- CL005-152----
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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
Situated on fairly high rocky ground with higher ground to the NE, E and S. Listed as ‘Cashel’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Westropp (1899, 180) mentions that Garracloon has ‘two old enclosures, fairly built, but much broken and a third (CL005-160006-), farther eastward, somewhat D-shaped in plan, bears the townland name’. It is unclear which enclosures are referred to as the first two. There are two conjoined enclosures indicated at this location on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, however, on inspection in 1998 these were found to be irregularly shaped enclosures (N enclosure diam. c. 37m; S enclosure diam. c. 26m) defined by a combination of modern drystone walling (T 0.8m; H 1.2-1.7m) and some older stone facing.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 1 February 2016
References
Westropp, T.J. 1899 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 367-84.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.