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Enclosure

Clogher (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Clogher, 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
Clogher (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.97930, -9.18341
SMR number
CL016-025----

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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 gentle rise in undulating cleared and drained low-lying pasture to the W of a stream; there are large forestry plantations to the S and W. Hachured on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A subrectangular enclosure (29m E-W; Wth 28m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1m) which is best preserved along the NE corner and at W. At NE traces of the inner edge of an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m) survive. Large stone blocks along the W side suggest that it may have been revetted internally. A gap at E (Wth 6.5m) may mark the original entrance. A possible external fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.2m) is visible at W. A rectangular annexe (Wth 14m) extends off the site to the E. A levelled field boundary or ditch runs off it to the S, from the SW corner. Superficially the enclosure resembles a moated site.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 25 April 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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