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Building

Cahermacon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Cahermacon, 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
Cahermacon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.97376, -9.13115
SMR number
CL016-144001-

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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

Located on the N half of a natural rectangular platform (66m N-S; 30m E-W) that slopes to the S. Indicated on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a roofed rectangular building; by the time of the 1916 ed., it was ruined and unroofed. The N wall (Wth 0.7-0.8m; H 0.4m; max. H 1.2m at NW) is the best preserved section of the building (int. dims. 9m N-S; 5.9m E-W). Only the inner face of the E and W walls is visible. The walls are constructed of crudely dressed and mortared stone that are probably of late-medieval date; no architectural features are evident (Breen and Ua Cróinín (2000, 5). A similar, but smaller, building (CL016-144002-) lies immediately to the N. The platform may have may have been adapted as a bawn (CL016-144003-) (ibid.).

See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 25 August 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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