Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doonmacfelim, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonmacfelim
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01978, -9.39492
- SMR number
- CL008-057009-
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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 gentle S-facing slope in rough pasture, overgrowth and limestone outcrop, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). This suboval enclosure (int. dims. 25m E-W; 21.5m N-S; ext. dims. 30.8m E-W; 23m N-S) is defined by a wall of partly grass-covered large boulders (max. L 1m; H 0.7m; Wth 0.5m) at NNW-WSW, and by a scarp (max. H 1.3m; Wth 5m) down to the interior elsewhere (WSW-NNW). A grass-covered field wall (max. Wth 3m; H 0.6m) is traceable running NW-SE in the N interior, and extending beyond the perimeter of the enclosure. Several large stones in the centre of the enclosure may be associated with this wall. In the S interior a grass-covered curving stone wall (L 7m; Wth 0.4m; H 0.4m) runs parallel with the enclosure wall, at a distance of 3-4m away.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL008-057009-_01.jpg Aerial view of enclosure from NW (ASI aerial photo, SMR file)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 25 October 2022
Nearby in the register
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.