Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherconnell, County Clare, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.