Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03823, -9.16389
- SMR number
- CL009-021022-
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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, with the slope increasing immediately to the N, within a larger subrectangular enclosure (CL009-021034-) and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). A subcircular area (int. dims. 21.5m E–W; 20.5m N–S; ext. dims. c. 17.4m N–S; 16.5m E–W) defined by a bank (Wth 2–2.6m; int. H 0.5–1.1m- ext. H 0.2–0.4m) which survives SE–NW; elsewhere a later field boundary overlies the perimeter. In the interior there are two walls, each a simple line of boulders (Wth c. 0.6m; H c. 0.3m): one wall (L c. 8m) extends SE from near the centre to the perimeter, and the other wall (L c. 13m) abuts the S side of the first, and curves across the enclosure to the SW. A house site (CL009-021035-) has been identified in the interior.
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. 75m to the NW; within it are a prehistoric house (CL009-021021-) and burial cairn (CL009-021020-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 16 November 2021
References
Grant, C. 2010 Kilcorney archaeological project. The Other Clare 34, 46-8.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.