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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83208, -8.78605
- SMR number
- CL035-111----
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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
At the edge of a relatively steep contour, on a SSE-facing slope, in mixed woodland. Described by Westropp (1914-16, 66) as ‘…a faint ring of small field-stones…, evidently a house-ring…’ Depicted as a circular enclosure on OS historic mapping. A circular area (16m N-S; 15m E-W) defined by the remains of a collapsed drystone wall (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m; Wth at top 1.1m; overall Wth 3.7m). There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at E. There is no evidence of an outer fosse. The interior is open and featureless and there is intermittent tree cover.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-111----_01.jpg From NW. Cross-sectional view of stone bank at SW.
CL035-111----_02.jpg From ENE. General view of monument (2m rod in centre).
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.