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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09634, -9.21808
- SMR number
- CL005-243----
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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 the N end of a high shelf midway along the ridge stretching from Gleninagh Mountain to Corkscrew Hill and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). A subcircular enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a bank. Visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe. A large enclosed field (c. 65m E-W; c. 60m N-S) is attached at S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.