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Hut site

Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, 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
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03933, -9.16522
SMR number
CL009-021017-

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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. A subcircular area (int. dims. 8.4m E–W; 7.8m N–S; ext. dims. 12.4m N–S; 11.5m E–W) defined by a double-faced wall which is only visible at the W (Wth 1.2m) and elsewhere by a bank (Wth 2–2.3m; int. H 0.4–0.6m; avg. ext. H 0.4m; ext. H at N 0.8m) in which occasional facing-stones can be seen. The entrance is not traceable.

A grass-covered field bank extends W from the NW side of the hut site to the perimeter of an enclosure (CL009-021016-) c. 19m to the W. Other field banks radiate out from this hut site at the E and SW, forming part of a large multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). Among the numerous enclosures, houses, hut sites and cairns in this vicinity dating from prehistoric to post-medieval periods (Grant 2010, 47) there is an enclosure (CL009-021025-) c. 65m to the S; within it are a prehistoric house (CL009-021021-), a second possible house (CL009-021035-) and burial cairn (CL009-021020-). Another enclosure lies c. 88m to the NW (CL009-021005-).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

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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