Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Magheranraheen Or Rockforest,treanmanagh, County Clare, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.