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Enclosure

Shanvogh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Shanvogh, 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
Shanvogh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.84234, -9.01549
SMR number
CL033-078----

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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

Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope down to the Claureen River c. 250m to the SE. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular feature (diam. c. 25m) on the 1921 ed. Described as a cashel with a portion of wall (H c. 2m) at W (Ua Cróinín survey 1988, SMR file). On inspection in 2000 it was not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 25 April 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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