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Enclosure

Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilcorney, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcorney
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03937, -9.16567
SMR number
CL009-021016-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a shallow depression on a N-facing slope at the edge of a plateau, in a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-), with an E–W ravine c. 115m to the N. An oval sunken area (int. dims. 10.6m NW–SE; 9.3m NE–SW; ext. dims. 13m NE–SW; 12.1m NW–SE) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.5–3m; H 0.3–0.4m). An outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) is traceable at the top of the scarp from WNW to ENE; elsewhere the bank is very ephemeral (max. H 0.1m). A later drystone field boundary has been built at the top of the scarp at the S. The S part of the interior is higher due to an E–W step (H 0.3m; Wth 0.5m) in the bedrock.

A grass-covered field bank extends E from the E side of the enclosure to the perimeter of a hut site (CL009-021017-) c. 19m to the E. There is a dense concentration of enclosures, houses, hut sites, cairns and associated field boundaries in this area, dating from prehistoric to post-medieval periods (Grant 2010, 47). An enclosure (CL009-021025-) lies c. 75m to the SSE; within it are a prehistoric house (CL009-021021-) , a second possible house site (CL009-021032-) and a burial cairn (CL009-021020-). Other enclosures lie c. 77m to the NNW (CL009-021005-) and c. 107m to the WNW (CL009-234----).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 3 November 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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