Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
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
- 53.03923, -9.23204
- SMR number
- CL009-001040-
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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
In rough pasture on an undulating karst plateau, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-) c. 19m to the SE of ‘Cahermakerrilla’ cashel (CL009-001005-). A house site (int. dims. 9.3m E–W; 4.5m N–S) defined by grass-covered, double-faced walls (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.3–0.5m). No entrance is visible. A small oval corral, open from N to E, (int. dims. 8m ENE–WSW; 7m NNW–SSE) lies adjacent to the W gable of the house. A grass-covered wall (L c. 7m) extends NW from the corral towards the cashel.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 21 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.