Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Fortane More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortane More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.88332, -8.69427
- SMR number
- CL027-036002-
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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
In low-lying terrain, c. 9m NW of Fortane More towerhouse (CL027-036----). A long rectangular building (int. dims. 20.4m SW-NE; 9m NW-SE; ext. dims. 22.5m SW-NE; 11.4m NW-SE) defined by the remains of wall foundations (H generally 0.1-0.5m) best preserved at SE, SW and NW (H 0.4m). These comprise an inner and outer kerbing of stones with a rubble core, best preserved at SE (Wth 1.2m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.7m) in the N half of the NW wall. The NE wall is reduced to rubble. A SW-NE field bank extends NE from the NW wall and another abuts this at right angles. The location and size of the building suggest it was associated with the tower house and stone for both appears to have been quarried locally. A natural platform (13m x 8m) c. 20m to the W could have served as a house platform.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ines Hagen
Date of upload: 17 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.