Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.08718, -9.00566
- SMR number
- CL006-197----
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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
Just above ‘Kinallia’ or ‘Eagle’s Rock’ on the E edge of the Slievecarran plateau and within a field system (CL006-042001-) extending all over the plateau. An irregular enclosure diamond-shaped (c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by stone wall foundations. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Possible hut sites occur on the perimeter at E, W and SW. Other hut sites (CL006-199----; CL006-200----; CL006-201----) lie 30-50m to the SE, SW and W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 November 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.