Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03616, -9.16396
- SMR number
- CL009-021003-
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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
On a gentle N-facing slope on a plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A subrectangular enclosure (int. dims. 13.9m E–W; 11.7m N–S) defined by a collapsed moss-covered stone spread (Wth 2.8–4.9m; int. H 0.3–0.5m; ext. H 0.4–0.8m). Outer wall-facing is visible from SW–NNE. No entrance or internal features are visible. A drystone wall (H 1.5m) is built on the line of the enclosure wall from SW–N, and remnants of another drystone wall overlying it survive from SE to S. The outer wall-facing suggests that this may be a cashel but with evidence for prehistoric activity in the area it may be earlier in date. An enclosure (CL009-021049-) lies c. 19m to the SE, two house sites lie c. 42m to the SE (CL009-021045-) and c. 53m to the SSW (CL009-021046-) and there is a hut site c. 38m to the SSE. (Grant 2010, 47)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 11 November 20221
References
Grant, C. 2010 Kilcorney archaeological project. The Other Clare 34, 46-8.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.