Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castletown (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02010, -9.08120
- SMR number
- CL010-056----
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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
In dense overgrowth (hazel, black- and whitethorn, and briars), with higher ground to the W and SW. Hachured as a circular antiquity (est. diam. c. 20m) on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and indicated on the later, Cassini edition (1920). Also indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) where it is labelled ‘Sheepfold’. Too overgrown to be surveyed when inspected in 1999. There is a cashel (CL010-122----) c. 77m to the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.