Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08559, -8.98607
- SMR number
- CL006-241----
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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 SE-facing slope in exposed karst close to the foot of Slievecarran. An oval enclosure (c. 23m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a stone wall visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. A field system (CL006-241001-) is attached to S and W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.