Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clooneen (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneen (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.99705, -9.15218
- SMR number
- CL009-059084-
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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 rough pasture on the brow of a SE-facing slope. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as it was indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). A D-shaped enclosure (int. dims. 29.4m N-S; 26.8m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (T 0.5-0.8m; max. H 1m) often with only one remaining course of transversely laid slabs.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 March 2016
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.