Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Formoyle West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10673, -9.24205
- SMR number
- CL005-316----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a scrub-covered area in the Caher Valley, on the lower NE slopes of Slieve Elva. A subcircular enclosure visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) defined by a wall. On the 1996-2000 OSi MapGenie orthophotograph a conjoined enclosure is visible at NE. The area can be seen as completely scrub-covered on the 2021 Google Earth imagery.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 10 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.