Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kells, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kells
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95352, -9.02928
- SMR number
- CL017-087----
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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 reclaimed pasture on a S-facing slope overlooking marshy ground to the S. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular enclosure (est. diams. c. 32m E-W; c. 30 N-S) depicted on the OS 6-inch maps within a matrix of small fields orientated N-S has since been levelled. While no visible surface traces exist, subsurface archaeological deposits may well survive intact.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 20-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.