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Enclosure

Eantybeg North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Eantybeg North, 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
Eantybeg North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.04580, -9.12438
SMR number
CL009-045002-

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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

Abutting the N exterior of Lissaniska cashel (CL009-045----), on a karst knoll at the edge of a plateau, with land dropping almost vertically to the E and rising to a bluff to the N. Depicted on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subrectangular enclosure (51m N–S; 40m E–W) is defined by a substantial double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.2m; H 1.2–2m) with rounded corners. Westropp (1911, 357) notes that the wall of this ‘outer court’ is of higher-quality and more massive construction than that of the cashel. He (ibid.) also records an unlined gap—not visible during an inspection in 1998—in the N of the cashel wall, providing access to this enclosure.
A megalithic structure (CL009-045004-) lies c. 10m to the N of the enclosure. A hut site (CL009-045003-) lies c. 21m to the SSW outside the cashel entrance. Other cashels (CL009-049---- and CL009-169----) lie c. 200m to the ENE and c. 248m to the WSW respectively.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 25 January 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1911 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolments) in the Burren, Co. Clare (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 343-67.

Nearby in the register

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

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