Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doolin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doolin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02482, -9.39230
- SMR number
- CL008-057008-
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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 shelf on a NW-facing slope, in rough pasture and limestone outcrops within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). This suboval enclosure (int. dims. 29m NW-SE; 22.7m NE-SW; ext. dims. 33.7m NW-SE; 28.8m NE-SW) is defined by a grass-covered random-coursed wall (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m) made of quite large stones (max. L 1.5m; H 1m; Wth 0.5m). At the S and SE two/three large stones (L 1.2m) are laid laterally across the wall. The perimeter is damaged at the W by a farm track. The enclosure is overlaid by grass-covered field walls running NW-SE and NE-SW. There is a cashel (CL008-057004-) c. 71m to the SE.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL008-057008-_01.jpg Aerial view of enclosure from NW (ASI photo, SMR file)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 25 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Platformunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.