Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Slievecarran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievecarran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08369, -9.01009
- SMR number
- CL006-190----
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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
Abutting a rock face in one of many natural hollows on top of Slievecarran and within a field system (CL006-042001-) extending all over the plateau. A subrectangular hut site (c. 8m E-W; c. 4m N-S) noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Several of the hollows in this area have evidence of occupation including an enclosure (CL006-191----) c. 70m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 November 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.