Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Claureen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claureen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85787, -9.00268
- SMR number
- CL033-080----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a slight rise in undulating karst landscape. A circular enclosure is hachured on the 1840 and the 1921 OS 6-inch maps. The enclosure is not visible at ground level. Some spoil mounds and islands of undisturbed karst exist at this location.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.