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
- 53.02076, -9.08967
- SMR number
- CL010-217----
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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
On a rise in generally flat pastureland. This small subcircular enclosure (int. diam. 9m) is defined by a uniform bank (Wth 1-1.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m) of stone and a little earth. The grass-covered interior is slightly hollow and rocky. There is a cashel (CL010-050----) c. 65m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.