Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfadda
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99666, -9.10755
- SMR number
- CL009-196001-
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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
On a wide E-W ridge which slopes and broadens to the W, in rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-166001-). This small circular enclosure (int. dims. 7.8m N-S; 7.6m E-W, ext. diam. 13.7m) is defined by a bank of stone collapse (Wth 2-3.8m; max. H 0.5m). Other enclosures (CL009-196003-; CL009-252----) lie c. 40m and 81m to the SSW respectively. There is a cairn (CL009-196002-) c. 66m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.