Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Smithstown (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.