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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02930, -9.07371
- SMR number
- CL010-063----
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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 undulating, improved pasture with low-lying ground to the E. Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (est. diams. c. 25-35m). This may have been referred to by Westropp (1896, 364) when he recorded, ‘Again ascending the ridge [from ‘Cahersavaun’ – CL010-067---- to the SE] we pass a late-looking enclosure, near which, in the rock, are three basins, so regular as to suggest their being artificial.’ No visible surface traces survive.
Reference
Prehistoric Stone Forts of Northern Clare (Continued), Westropp, T.J., JRSAI, 1896, Vol. 6, No. 4, 362-369.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.