Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kiltaan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltaan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01670, -9.17798
- SMR number
- CL009-254----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in an area with extensive exposed karst and within an extensive field system (CL009-059001-). A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi orthophotography (MapGenie 2013-2018). Another enclosure (CL009-239----) lies c. 10m to the NW. Noughaval church (CL009-059023-) and graveyard (CL009-059024-) lie across the road c. 150m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.