Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cahermakerrila, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermakerrila
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03892, -9.23516
- SMR number
- CL009-001003-
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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 an elevated plateau of undulating karst pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-), with views of Slieve Elva to the NNW and an ENE–WSW ridge c. 500m to the S. Marked as a slight stone or earth ring on Robinson’s map (1977). Listed as ‘Hut site’ in the RMP (1996).
A sub-rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 13.3m N–S; 10.4m E–W; ext. dims. 17.8m N–S; 14.3m E–W) defined by a grass-covered collapsed wall (int. H 0.2–0.4m; ext. H 0.1–0.4m; T 1.5–2.5m), with no visible entrance. Some field stones have been added to the perimeter at the W and a drystone field wall has been built over the E wall.
A hut site (CL009-001004-) and possible souterrain (CL009-001038-) lie c. 30m to the ESE, Cahermakerrila cashel (CL009-001005-) lies c. 176m to the ENE and a fulacht fia (CL009-233----) lies c. 124m SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 11 October 2021
References
Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.