Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Magheraweeleen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraweeleen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03447, -9.15392
- SMR number
- CL009-235----
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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 the gentle S-facing slope of a karst plateau and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). A square enclosure (diam. c. 18m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi orthophotography (MapGenie 2013-2018). A later field wall (townland boundary) overlies the W side. An unclassified megalithic tomb (CL009-021012-) lies c. 130m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.