Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Commons (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02550, -9.10025
- SMR number
- CL010-047005-
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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
Situated on a slight rise in an exposed area within a large field system (CL009-084001-/CL010-047001*. Listed as 'Potential Site Aerial Photo' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Visible on an aerial photograph (HSL 9104/05). On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a roughly circular enclosure (int. dims. 18m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by drystone wall comprising leaning slabs.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.