Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clooncoose, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncoose
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00830, -9.07553
- SMR number
- CL010-100002-
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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
On level ground in a slight hollow within an area of rough pasture and hazel. There are cliffs to the W and N, and the ground to E is slightly higher. Indicated on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS. In combination with an adjacent enclosure (CL010-100001-) c. 18m to the WSW, named ‘Carrachantaggart’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and ‘Cathracha an tSagairt’ on Robinson’s (1977) map. The name may also refer to a mass rock (CL010-100003-) marked on Robinson’s map a short distance to the N. This large subrectangular enclosure (int. dims. 62m NNW-SSE; 41m ENE-WSW at centre) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 0.9-2.4m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-1.6m) and associated collapse. At the S a drystone wall (H 0.6-1m) is built over the enclosure wall, while at the E a single drystone wall (H 1.8m) is built along the perimeter. A rectangular structure (CL010-100005-) is built against the inner wall-face at the W end of the N side.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 30 May 2023
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.