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Enclosure

Smithstown (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Smithstown, 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
Smithstown (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99033, -9.27219
SMR number
CL015-032----

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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

In an area of overgrown marshy pasture on the edge of a steep S-facing slope on the N banks of the Smithstown River c. 155m WSW of Smithstown Castle (CL015-034002-). Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A collapsed and grassed-over roughly circular stone and earth enclosure (diam. 11.75m) defined by a bank (H 0.6m at S to 0.8m at N; Wth 2-6m) with intervening gaps at the ESE (Wth 1.8m) and WNW (Wth 2.1m). The bank edges are well defined except along the S where the ground drops sharply towards the river. The site is very overgrown.

The following item has been uploaded:
CL015-032----_01.jpg View of enclosure from S

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 3 July 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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