Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilvoydan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilvoydan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.94698, -9.05859
- SMR number
- CL017-117----
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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
Towards the top of a gentle S-facing slope. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Hachured as a circular ringfort (est. dia. c. 38m) on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. However, by the time the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) was drawn, only a chord of enclosing bank (L c. 24m) from WSW-W-WNW was recorded, together with a later field boundary running N-S through the interior of the monument. When inspected in 1999, the E-portion of the monument (to the E of the later N-S boundary wall) was not clearly visible at ground level. However, the W portion (to the W of the later N-S wall) was traceable in undulating, rough pasture, where it survived as an uneven D-shaped raised area (17m N-S; 10m E-W) of spoil-like material (H 0.3-0.8m) containing hollows, defined from W-NW by a curvilinear bank-like feature (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) of earth and stone.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 29-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Tau Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.