Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Kilbreckan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbreckan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83108, -8.92433
- SMR number
- CL034-254----
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 E-facing slope in pasture. A subcircular area (c. 95m NE-SW) defined by two banks visible on Google Earth (imagery date 10 February 2021). Reported to the National Monuments Service by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure is truncated at SE by the Clarecastle to Clooney road. The driveway to Kilbreckanbeg House cuts across the W portion of the enclosure. This driveway is along the line of a field boundary shown on the OS 6-inch 1836 map leading to Kilbreckanbeg House. A rath (CL034-252----) lies c. 130m to the W.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL034-254----_01.jpg Google Earth image 10 February 2021
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.