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Enclosure

Carrowvere, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carrowvere, 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
Carrowvere
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.91889, -9.17492
SMR number
CL024-007----

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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 a NW-facing slope beside a stream in marshy land with conifer plantations nearby. Overlooked by higher ground to E and SE. Hachured as a ringfort on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and not indicated on later editions. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Inspection in 1999 found no visible trace of a monument at ground level. No visible traces on any available aerial imagery (2024). 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

 

Date of upload: 19 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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