Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Cahermacnaghten, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacnaghten
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04120, -9.21181
- SMR number
- CL009-001046-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated in the SW corner of Cahermacnaghten townland at the SW end of a settlement focussed on ‘Cabhail Tighe Breac’ (the probable 15th/16th century schoolhouse of the O’Davoren Brehon lawyers) (CL009-001009-). A subcircular hut site (int. diam. 5.8m E-W; 6.4m N-S) defined by a thick stone wall (Wth 1.55m; max. int. H 1.45m at W; max. ext. H 1.5m) composed of large slabs of flat bedded, drystone karst. The upper courses of the wall have collapsed. A V-shaped entrance (Wth 0.65m) at E has a stone post at S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney with details supplied by Dr. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, School of Geography and Archaeology, NUIG.
Date of upload: 8 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.