Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Sheshymore, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheshymore
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00680, -9.12809
- SMR number
- CL009-161----
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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
In hazel scrub and rough pasture on a plateau. Listed as ‘Cairn (possible)’ in the RMP (1996), on the basis of notes by Tom Coffey and Paul Walsh (SMR file). Not visible at ground level during an inspection in 1997. A subcircular enclosure (int. dims. c. 28m E-W) with a house site (CL009-161001-) in the centre is visible on Aerial Premium (2013-2018). The N half of the enclosure is overgrown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.