Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Cahermacnaghten, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacnaghten
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04897, -9.18714
- SMR number
- CL009-001053-
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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 c. 40m SE of Caheridoula cashel in a group of houses forming a nucleated settlement. Described by Fitzpatrick (2009, 300) as 'a small nucleated settlement of undetermined date. A field wall overlies the S wall of one of the houses in that cluster and it pre-dates the others. Its visible wall-footings indicate an E/W-aligned rectangular building, 6.2 by 4.4m internally. It is smaller in scale than the Cahermacnaghten, Cahermore and Ballyganner houses and appears to have its entrance in the W gable, unlike the former which have entrances in their long walls. The walls of Caheridoula building are 1m thick, constructed of flat-bedded masonry and have rounded quoins.'
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 15 September 2020
References
FitzPatrick, E. 2009 Native enclosed settlement and the problem of the Irish 'ring-fort'. Medieval Archaeology 53, 271–307.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.