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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.82971, -8.78364
- SMR number
- CL035-114----
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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.