Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Dangan (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08604, -9.13022
- SMR number
- CL005-302----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 W summit of Ailwee Hill within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). An irregular large enclosure (c. 120m E-W; c. 83m N-S) defined by a mound or slab wall. A straight field wall crosses the site from NE to S. An irregular enclosed area (c. 38m N-S; c. 30m E-W) is centrally placed within the larger enclosure and is also cut by the later field boundary. Noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL005-302----_01.jpg View on OSi MapGenie orthophoto (2012-2018)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.