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House - 16th century

Cahermacnaghten, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 16th century, Cahermacnaghten, 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
Cahermacnaghten
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of OLoughlins Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04594, -9.19852
SMR number
CL009-001012-

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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

Listed as ‘Castle’ in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1996) as it named ‘Site of O’Loughlin’s Castle’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. According to FitzPatrick (2008, 59) the castle name on the map is in error and is likely to refer to the castle in Ballymahony townland (CL009-014002-) a short distance to the S. The foundations of a house (ext. L 8.8m NW-SE; 6.5m NE-SW; int. dims. 12m x 5m; wall T 0.95-1.1m) oriented ENE-WSW lie in the S portion of Cahermacnaghten cashel (CL009-001010-). A break in the wall footings at the W end of the N wall marks an entrance. A smaller house (ext. dims. 10m x 6m) (CL009-001051-) adjoins the W gable and abuts the cashel wall. Two other houses (CL009-001049- and CL009-001050-) lie in the N portion of the interior and a fifth (CL009-001052-) lies nearest the cashel entrance. All the houses are arranged around perimeter leaving the centre open. FitzPatrick (ibid.) cites a reference to Aodh and Cosnamhach Ó Dabhoireann who divided the contents of the cashel between them in the early 17th century. A deed of 1606 also mentions that the houses had also been the property of their grandfather. Cahermacnaghten is a National Monument in state care, no. 354.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 17 July 2018

References

Fitzpatrick, E. 2008 Antiquarian scholarship and the archaeology of Cahermacnaghten, Burren, Co. Clare. The Other Clare 32, 58-66.

Nearby in the register

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

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