Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.04612, -9.23426
- SMR number
- CL009-006003-
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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
In pasture on the Burren plateau, at the S base of a low E–W ridge, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). A circular hut site (int. diam. 2.4m N–S) defined by mainly grass-covered foundations stones (Wth c. 0.5m). No entrance is visible. A holy well (CL009-006001-) and a penitential station (CL009-006002-) lie c. 2m and c. 4m to the N respectively. There is an enclosure (CL009-007----) 94m to the E.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-006003- (looking W).jpg
Compiled by Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.