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Enclosure

Magheranraheen Or Rockforest,Treanmanagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Magheranraheen Or Rockforest, Treanmanagh, 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
Magheranraheen Or Rockforest,Treanmanagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.00101, -8.95799
SMR number
CL011-018----

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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

On a fairly level NE-SW oriented ridge in pasture, with ground immediately to the SE sloping steeply down towards Ballyeighter Lough. Although not recorded on the first edition (1830s) of the OS 6-inch map – where the location is shown as tree-covered – the monument is hachured on both the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. The levelled monument is no longer clearly visible at ground level but can be seen in satellite imagery (Digital Globe 2011-2013; Aerial Premium 2013-2018) as a large, oval enclosure (est. diams. c. 70m NE-SW; c. 63m NW-SE) defined by a faintly traceable bank (est. Wth c. 5m) and external fosse (est. Wth c. 7m). A later field boundary overlying the perimeter from SE-SW is the townland boundary separating Magheranraheen or Rockforest from Treanmanagh to the S.
The monument lies immediately E of a NE-SW running road which is named ‘Sir Donat’s Road’ (CL010-046---- / CL011-001---*) c. 530m to the SW on the OS mapping. There is a holy well (CL011-019----) c. 85m to the SSE.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 13 January 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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