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Enclosure

Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cahermackirilla, 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
Cahermackirilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02331, -9.11040
SMR number
CL009-084014-

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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

At the W edge of a plateau, on a gentle S-facing slope in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (c. 25m N-S; c. 23.5m E-W) is defined by a stone spread, which is best preserved at W (Wth 2-3m; H 0.2-1m). While it can hardly be traced between E and S (Wth 1m) traces of the outer wall-face are visible between ENE and ESE. It is overlain by a drystone field wall between ESE and SSE. Another drystone wall has been built inside the perimeter of the original wall between N and ENE. A house (CL009-084029-) lies c. 55m to the ENE and there is a hut site (CL009-084026-) c. 70m to the NE.

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-084014-_01.jpg View from SW

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 28 April 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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