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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Clooney South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Clooney South, 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
Clooney South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.93692, -9.20121
SMR number
CL016-105004-

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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

Near the top of a prominent rise in hilly marshy pasture and to the S of the Ennistimon to Corrofin road. A short curving arc of hachures is shown on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map in a field across the road from a medieval church (CL016-105001-) and its associated graveyard (CL016-105002-). On inspection in May 1999, no visible surface trace of it was noted as the field had been levelled and drained. Current aerial imagery (OSi ditigalglobe 2011-2013) shows a curving depression (c. 30m to the S of the road) crossing two fields. It may mirror the outline of an enclosure or, alternatively, a boreen. Another curving line visible to N of the graveyard may be a continuation of that to the S, if that is the case the enclosure would have an overall dimension of 120m E-W and c. 90m N-S, suggesting that it could be an ecclesiastical enclosure. A holy well (CL016-105003-) lies c. 127m to the W.

The following image has been uploaded: CL016-105004-_01.jpg Aerial view looking S.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 24 June 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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