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
- 53.04180, -9.08603
- SMR number
- CL010-259----
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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 gentle S-facing slope towards the E end of a broad high karst plateau. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). A D-shaped enclosure (c. 20m E-W) defined by a grassed-over stone wall with a straight E side (L c. 19m) formed by a later field wall. Contemporary field boundaries abut the enclosure at SW and NW. Visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 July 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.