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 (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83320, -8.78593
- SMR number
- CL035-110----
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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 generally level area of rock outcrop and mixed woodland. The monument is described by Westropp (1914-16, 66) as ‘…a late ring….in it’s garth….is a circular house-site…’. Indicated on OS historic mapping as a circular enclosure incorporating a field boundary NW-NE. A circular area (18m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by the remains of a collapsed drystone wall (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth at top 1.7m; overall Wth 4.0m) consisting of quite large, rounded and completely moss-covered stones. There is no obvious entrance. The interior is uneven due to loose moss-covered stones scattered intermittently amongst quite a dense cover of Beech trees. A concentration of stones off-centre to W may signify an internal structure, however this is obscured by a thicket of small trees and dead branches and it is not possible to clarify the nature or extent of this feature. A later drystone field wall (long-axis WSW-ENE), built of more angular stone and of different construction, is situated on top of the enclosing elements NW-N-NE.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-110----_01.jpg From NW. Cross-sectional view of bank at NE.
CL035-110----_02.jpg From SE. SE-elevation of bank.
CL035-110----_03.jpg From SW. General view across interior.
CL035-110----_04.jpg From SE. NW elevation of stone bank with later wall constructed on top (interior view).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 January 2018
References
Westropp, T.J. 1914-16 Types of ring-forts remaining in Eastern Co. Clare, part IV. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32, 58-77.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.