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Enclosure

Caherminnaun West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Caherminnaun West, 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
Caherminnaun West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99618, -9.19580
SMR number
CL009-059005-

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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

On a rise in undulating pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This small subrectangular enclosure (int. dims. 16.3m N–S; 15.5m E–W) is defined by a low grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 2.2–2.8m; int. H 0.2–0.4m; ext. H 0.4–1.1m). A drystone field wall (H 0.4–0.6m) has been built on top of the N side of the bank. The E side is damaged and ragged in outline. A row of stones marks the outer edge of the S side. The W side is slightly curved. Outside the SE corner a hole (diam. c. 4m; max. D 0.8m) has been filled with field stones. A cashel (CL009-059004-) lies c. 70m to the WSW and there is a holy well (CL009-059010-) c. 73m to the NNE.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 7 March 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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