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Enclosure

Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, 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
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.91577, -8.44773
SMR number
CL029-009132-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Situated immediately N of the Saint’s Graveyard (CL029-009030-) on Inis Cealtra. An overgrown enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a stony bank was excavated by de Paor between 1972 and 1976 (Licence no. E000180) (de Paor 2013, 37). Excavation revealed a drystone wall similar to the enclosures (CL029-009004- and CL029-009007-) around St. Brigid’s and St. Michael’s churches. Some paving survived around the perimeter. The ‘Confessional’ (CL029-009017-) lay in the SW quadrant of the enclosure. According to de Paor (ibid.) this was a development associated with remodelling for the purpose of pilgrimage rounds in the 17th/18th century. There was no evidence of an earlier enclosure at this location and there is no enclosure extant.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 4 November 2015

References

de Paor †, L. 2013 Inis Cealtra: Archaeological investigations of the monuments on the island. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 53, 27-78.

Nearby in the register

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

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