Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rannagh West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannagh West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04477, -9.09897
- SMR number
- CL010-235----
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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 the Carran plateau, immediately W of Carran village. A large subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 120m N-S; c. 100m E-W) with another enclosure (CL010-233----) (with hut site) conjoined at W. This is one of several prehistoric enclosures on the plateau (Jones et al. 2011, 46, fig.4, Enclosure 5). It has a wall construction similar to another of these enclosures c. 1.8km to the SE (CL010-015001-) dated to the Late Bronze Age (Gibson 2007, 1-29). A system of associated mound walls (CL010-005001-) radiate off the enclosure. (Hennigar 2008, 63-8; Jones et al. 2011, 44-9)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 May 2016
References
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Hennigar, C. 2008 The late Bronze Age settlement landscape of the Burren. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.
Gibson, B. 2007 The hillslope enclosures of the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 107C, 1-29.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.