Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gorteen (dangan Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (dangan Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.83322, -8.78949
- SMR number
- CL035-108----
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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
In improved, undulating pasture, adjacent to E of woodland and on a low, distinct rise. It is depicted as a circular enclosure (c. 38m E-W; c. 36m N-S) within an area of rough pasture and rock outcrop on the 1841 OS edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is not depicted upon later OS historic mapping. Not visible at ground level. There is rock outcrop close to the surface on the low rise, where the monument was sited.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.