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Enclosure

Kilvoydan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilvoydan, 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
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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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

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

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

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