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Enclosure

Corbally (Bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Corbally, 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
Corbally (Bunratty Upper By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.84173, -8.84747
SMR number
CL034-253----

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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

On a low rise in pasture. A subrectangular enclosure (38.3m NW-SE; 39m SW-NE) visible as a scarp on Google Earth (imagery date 19 January 2021). The NE side is defined by an overgrown field boundary. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Jean-Charles Caillère. Two ringforts (CL034-090001- ‘Drumbaun Fort’ and CL034-090002-) lie immediately to the NE.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL034-253----_01.jpg Google Earth image 19 January 2021

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: January 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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