Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Leamaneh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leamaneh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98550, -9.12953
- SMR number
- CL016-182----
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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
On the top of Knockloon Hill, c. 75m W of a ring-barrow (CL016-137----) and two circular features (CL016-180---- and CL016-181----). A small circular feature, most likely a ring-ditch (diam. c. 7m) revealed during a magnetic survey in 2017 by the Irish Fieldschool of Prehistoric Archeology (NUIG) (Ó Maoldúin 2020).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 October 2020
References
Ó Maoldúin, R. 2020 Preliminary report on archaeological excavations of barrow CL016-037 and associated geophysical anomalies on Knockloon Hill, Leamaneh North, Co. Clare. (Licence no. 18E0300) Unpublished report. Submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.