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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00021, -9.13744
- SMR number
- CL009-164001-
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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
A subrectangular enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 70 E-W) defined by single drystone wall (Wth less than 0.5m; H less than 1m) within an extensive field system (CL009-059001-).The NE quadrant is separated off by an internal rectangular subdivision (c. 31m N-S; c. 21m E-W). A souterrain (CL009-164----) lies in the SE quadrant. A cairn with two cists (CL009-163001-, CL009-163002- and CL009-162003-) lies c. 25m to the W and a cashel (CL009-059097-) lies 22m to the SW. (Bowmer 2019, 82, Appendix 1, no. 64)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 February 2021
References
Bowmer, T. 2019 Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 28, 59–84.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.