Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Aillwee, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillwee
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08966, -9.11642
- SMR number
- CL005-251----
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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 a hollow on the summit of Ailwee Hill and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). A D-shaped hut site (diam. c. 8m) with its straight side formed by the W side of the hollow visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe. A second hut site (CL005-260---) lies c. 5m to the SE within the same hollow.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.