Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortaclare, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaclare
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07578, -9.04641
- SMR number
- CL006-183----
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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 a W-facing slope towards the summit of Gortaclare Mountain and within an extensive field system (CL006-042001-). An oval enclosure (c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall (Wth c. 1.6m) NW-SW. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.