Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.03399, -9.15855
- SMR number
- CL009-021026-
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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
On a N-facing slope on a plateau within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). A subcircular slab-walled enclosure (c. 56m N-S; c. 65m E-W) defined by a collapsed wall and partially overgrown with scrub. Identified by Christine Grant. There are numerous enclosures, houses, hut sites and cairns in this vicinity dating from prehistoric to post-medieval periods (Grant 2010, 47). (This site is identified as KY7 on a Kilcorney Study Area plan, C. Grant, pers. comm. 2021).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 10 November 2025
References
Grant, C. 2010 Kilcorney archaeological project. The Other Clare 34, 46-8.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.