Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doonyvardan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonyvardan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06116, -9.19714
- SMR number
- CL005-204----
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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 a plateau of karst limestone in a slight basin. A rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 23.2m NW-SE; 28.2m NE-SW) defined at SW, NW and NE by a drystone wall (Wth 0.4-0.8m; H up to 1.4m) and at SE by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.2m; H 0.6-0.9m). Indicated on Tim Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). There is some spill associated with the drystone wall but it is unclear whether it is built on an older wall. A grass-covered rectangular rock outcrop (6.2m NW-SE; H 0.4-0.8m) occupies the centre of the enclosure. There is a small subrectangular annexe (10m NE-SW; 5.5-10.5m NW-SE) outside the S corner.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 February 2016
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.