Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rannagh West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannagh West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04491, -9.08112
- SMR number
- CL010-013----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a low-lying sheltered area on the N slope of a ridge. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and indicated on the 1916 ed. Listed as ‘Cairn’ in the RMP (1996). A roughly circular enclosure (est. int. dims. c. 41m N-S; c. 39m E-W) defined by a drystone wall which is slightly straightened in the E extent. Later field walls abut the site at NNW, ENE, SE, SSW and WNW. Another enclosure (CL010-012----) is located c. 73m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 15 June 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.