Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Iskancullin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iskancullin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02451, -9.13711
- SMR number
- CL009-071----
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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 on a slight E-facing slope overlooking the Poulacarran depression. Listed as ‘Cashel’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as it was described by Westropp (1901, 285) as one of ‘two little cahers close to the road’. On inspection in 2007 this was found to be a subrectangular enclosure (int. dims. 29m E-W; 25.2m N-S) of modern construction defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.6-1.4m) with some spill around the base but with no facing stones. There are entrance gaps at S (Wth 1.6m) and NE (Wth 1.4m). A cleat (int. dims. 4.8m E-W; 1.4m N-S) inside the perimeter at N is largely filled with stones. A relict field wall abuts the site at ENE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.