Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Noughaval (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Noughaval (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01203, -9.16997
- SMR number
- CL009-059049-
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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 gentle E-facing slope in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Described by Westropp (1915, 255) as a ‘fan-shaped court’ with ‘a hut 6 feet inside, with wall 3 feet thick at the south-east corner, touching which and outside it is a circular hut with walls of equal thickness and 6 feet inside’. On inspection in 1997 this was recorded as a D-shaped or triangular enclosure (int. dims. 9.9m NNE-SSW; 7m WNW-ESE) defined by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 1.5-3m; H 0.3-0.5m) attached to the N side of a grass-covered field boundary running ESE-WNW. The interior appeared to be lower than the surrounding ground. In the SE corner there was a stone-lined cell (int. dims. L 2.7m; Wth 1.6m). Outside the enclosure at E there was a small cairn (diam. 4m; H. 0.3-0.6m) possibly representing rubble from a break in the field wall immediately to the E.
A hut site (CL009-059051-) lies c. 75m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 15 February 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.