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Enclosure

Ross (Inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ross, 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
Ross (Inchiquin By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1920)
Coordinates
52.91593, -8.98283
SMR number
CL025-166----

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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

In a hollow on a slight N-facing slope in an area reverting to scrub. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and as a stone wall surrounding a hollow on the 1920 Cassini edition with the townland boundary curving to respect the feature. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 a natural circular hollow (diam. 33m) was noted defined by natural scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.8) with a berm (Wth 1.6m) inside the wall at N. There were no definite remains of a cashel although it was noted that a cashel (CL025-159----) 340m to the W had been similarly marked on the 1920 map.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney 

 

Date of upload: 1 December 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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