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Enclosure

Lurraga, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lurraga, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lurraga
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03650, -9.34154
SMR number
CL008-153----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In pastureland interspersed with scrub. The outline of a possible overgrown enclosure, roughly circular in plan (max. diam. c. 37m), is visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitaglobe (2011-2013) and Geohive MapGenie Imagery (2013-2018)). Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 3 October 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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