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Enclosure

Caherblonick North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Caherblonick North, 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
Caherblonick North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.96516, -9.12820
SMR number
CL016-196----

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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 an unreclaimed area of rough pasture and scrub. Partially indicated as an outline on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. A subcircular area (diam. c. 45m; max. ext. diam. c. 60m) defined by a field boundary that is superimposed from SW to SE. Traces of a fosse can be made out on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018) curving from SE to SW. Many other cashels and cairns lie close by to the N.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 12 November 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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