Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Milltown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86879, -8.78799
- SMR number
- CL035-013001-
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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 generally level area of a gentle SW-facing slope, in improved pasture. Depicted as a large oval enclosure (c. 34m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and indicated on subsequent OS historic mapping. Not visible at ground level. The site of a megalithic structure (CL035-013002-) is located c. 5m to S and a standing stone (CL035-013003-) formerly stood c. 15m to SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Alison McQueen
Date of upload: 13 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.