Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cahermakerrila, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermakerrila
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04147, -9.23255
- SMR number
- CL009-260----
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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 an elevated plateau in pasture within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). A very irregular enclosure (c. 90m E-W; c. 70m N-S) defined by a grass-over stone wall and visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). Reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Later regular NNW-SSE linear field walls cross the enclosure. Another enclosure (CL009-261----) is conjoined at NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.