Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherloghan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherloghan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84721, -8.80827
- SMR number
- CL035-040----
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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 the level plateau of a limestone ridge, in lush pasture. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map and 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure which is truncated across the WSW sector by a linear field boundary (long-axis NW-SE). An oval area (28m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth at top 3.1m; overall Wth 10.15m) SE-S and W-NE, which is reduced to a scarp SW-W and levelled NE-ESE. The bank is best preserved SE-S. There is a dense clump of briars which obscures the enclosing elements at ESE. The interior is generally level. A well-defined curvilinear field bank (C c. 40m) extends from the monument at WNW and encloses its northern side and the children’s burial ground (CL035-041----) which is c. 25m to NE at its closest point.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-040----_01 From E. General view of monument.
CL035-040----_02 From E. Cross sectional view of bank at S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 13 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.