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Designed landscape feature

Portlecka, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Portlecka, 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
Portlecka
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.92073, -8.98361
SMR number
CL025-234----

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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

Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Published as a ‘fort’ in a note (Coffey 1987, 49) and described as lying between Port House and the gateway to the disused kitchen garden. On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a sunken rectangular area (max. 22.7m N-S; 21m E-W) and is most likely related to the gardens of Port House.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 20 October 2014

References

Coffey, T. 1987 Field notes. The Other Clare 11, 49-50.

Nearby in the register

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

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