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
- 53.02808, -9.09255
- SMR number
- CL010-253----
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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 top of a broad limestone plateau in rough pasture and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). An oval enclosure (c. 20m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW) defined by a grassed-over wall visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). Enclosures (CL010-252---- and CL010-266----) lie c. 30m to the WSW and c. 105m to the NE respectively.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 July 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.