Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04859, -9.05672
- SMR number
- CL010-255----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 S-facing shelf at the S end of the Termon plateau within an extensive field system (CL010-217----). Noted by Keegan (2016, 95-6) and described as a circular area (11.93m E-W; 9.85m N-S) defined by a mound-like wall (Wth at base 2.36-3.1m) with a possible entrance at W. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). A small enclosure (CL010-285----) lies c. 95m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 July 2023
References
Keegan, D.M. 2016 The Chalcolithic - Early Bronze Age farming community of Termon: a landscape survey. Unpublished MA Thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.