Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03971, -9.16741
- SMR number
- CL009-234----
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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 N-facing slope at the N extent of a karst plateau and within an extensive field system (CL009-021001-). A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a stone wall and within a larger enclosure (CL009-234002-) visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi orthophotography (MapGenie 2013-2018). Remains of a possible house (CL009-234001-) lie inside the S perimeter. Many contiguous settlement enclosures occupy the N slopes of the plateau immediately to the SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.