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Enclosure

Inchiquin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Inchiquin, 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
Inchiquin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.95833, -9.08499
SMR number
CL017-058----

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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

On level pasture at the top of a S-facing slope overlooking Inchiquin Lough. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Upon inspection in 1998, it appeared that relatively recent clearance works had impacted on the monument and resulted in its W limits being truncated. This very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (int. dims. 30.8m N-S; 28.5m E-W) has its perimeter from NW-N-NE obscured by a bank of spoil (Wth c. 5m; H 1.5m). From NE-E-SE the perimeter was indicated by bushes and a sparse band of stones (Wth c. 2m), while from SE-S, the enclosure was defined by a counterscarp (H 0.3-0.5m) rising from the interior.

Subsequent satellite imagery (MapGenie Imagery 2005-2012; MapGenie DigitalGlobe Imagery 2011-2013) suggests these meagre remains and a field wall at the enclosure’s W edge were later removed. In more recent satellite imagery (MapGenie Imagery 2013-2018), the enclosure’s edge from NNW-N-E is faintly discernible as a low grass-covered scarp.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 July 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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