Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Clooneen (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.