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Barrow - unclassified

Clooneen (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Clooneen, 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
Clooneen (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98117, -9.15469
SMR number
CL016-029----

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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 reclaimed pastureland on the summit of Knockcarragh Hill. Hachured on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as enclosure in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 258) as ‘a conspicuous little tumulus’.
A grass-covered subcircular flat-topped mound (basal dims. 13m E-W; 11.3m N-S; H 1.4-2.2m) constructed of earth and large stones (dims. L c. 0.3m; L 0.3m). Its top (8m N-S; 5.7m E-W) slopes to the S and is covered with overgrown field-clearance stones. A drystone field wall crossing it from NW to SSE was built by the Land Commission during the 1920s, according to local information. The N edge of the mound has been straightened and is aligned NE-SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 25 April 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.

Nearby in the register

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

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