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Hut site

Cahermakerrila, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Cahermakerrila, 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
Cahermakerrila
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03880, -9.23456
SMR number
CL009-001004-

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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

On a slight knoll, on an elevated plateau of undulating karst pasture, within a large field system (CL009-001001-), with views of Slieve Elva to the NNW and an ENE–WSW ridge c. 500m to the S. A D-shaped hut site (int. dims. 8.3m E–W; 6.6m N–S; ext. dims. 10.1m E–W; 8.7m N–S) defined by a grass-covered collapsed wall (H 0.2-0.6m; T 0.7-1.4m), with a straight N side (L 10.1m) and no visible entrance. Westropp (1915, 52) described it as a ‘house ring’ with walls built of ‘large oblong blocks, now rarely a yard high, 3 feet thick’. There is a possible souterrain (CL009-001038-) in its centre.

An enclosure (CL009-001004-) lies c. 30m to the WNW, Cahermakerrila cashel (CL009-001005-) lies c. 144m to the ENE and a fulacht fia (CL009-233----) lies c. 130m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 11 October 2021

References

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

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

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