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Enclosure

Caherconnell, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Caherconnell, 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
Caherconnell
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03901, -9.13660
SMR number
CL009-030012-

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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

Situated in an area of bare pavement on a gentle E-facing shelf with a small turlough to the N. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and as ‘Stone enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Described (McMahon 1982, 6) as D-shaped and comprising thin limestone slabs placed side by side with an entrance feature opposite which was a large stone slab, resembling a stone circle. On inspection in 1998 this was found to be an enclosure (dims. 16m N-S; 13.5m E-W) defined by the remnants of a drystone wall of relatively modern construction with most of the stones laid transversely.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 23 February 2016

References

McMahon, M. 1982 Bronze Age ritual monuments (?) in the Burren. The Other Clare 6, 5-7.

Nearby in the register

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

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