Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Cloontyconnaught, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontyconnaught
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92254, -8.46213
- SMR number
- CL029-060----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a low-lying, flat, marshy area 50m from the N shore of Lough Derg with Woodpark Demesne to the N. A large subcircular enclosure (diam. 59m) defined by an insubstantial bank (Wth 2.15-2.3m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 0.63-0.87m) and shallow, flat fosse (Wth 1.3-1.45m; D 0.2-0.3m) that peters out at NW. There are several small gaps in the bank but no definite entrance feature. Mature trees, beech, sycamore, ash and holly grow throughout and several badger burrows are evident in the banks and the interior. The interior is uneven with a raised area a W sloping to E and there are a few moss-covered boulders but no definite structures. There are several 19th century features in the area including named groves, plantations, gardens and badger burrows and this feature appears to be part of that landscape.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL029-060----_01.jpg General view across bank and interior from NNE.
CL029-060----_02.jpg Bank and fosse at N from E.
CL029-060----_03.jpg General view from N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 October 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.