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Enclosure

Lackareagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lackareagh, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lackareagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01467, -9.02791
SMR number
CL010-296----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Reported by Conn Herriott. On a S-facing slope in improved pasture c. 95m SW of an unclassified castle (CL010-076----). Visible GeoHive Aerial Premium imagery (2013-2018) as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 55m) defined by a curving scarp NW-NE which is mirrored by a curving later field boundary SE-SSW, with an entrance gap at SSW. Later field walls overlie the site; running NW–SSW and NE–SE.

See attached image: CL010-296----_01 JPG Snip from GeoHive Aerial Premium dated 2013-2018.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 26 May 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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