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Enclosure

Gorteen (Dangan ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gorteen, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gorteen (Dangan ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1921)
Coordinates
52.82971, -8.78364
SMR number
CL035-114----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In improved pasture, on a very gentle E-facing slope with rock outcrop close to the surface. Recorded by Westropp (1914-16, 65-66) as a small enclosure which he labelled ‘A’ on his map ‘Gorteen Group of Forts’. He describes it as ‘a house-ring, barely 50 feet across, with a thin wall, 6 feet or 7 feet thick, of coarse cragg stones’. Depicted on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 19.5m ENE-WSW; c. 15.5m NNW-SSE). Not visible at ground level. According to local information this land was improved during the 1960s/70s.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 29 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.

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