Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Milltown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86746, -8.79719
- SMR number
- CL035-166----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a gentle W-facing slope, in improved pasture, with reasonable views of the surrounding landscape to W and N. Depicted on the 25-inch OS map as a large oval enclosure (c. 54m NW-SE; c. 37m NE-SW) which is truncated by a tertiary road (long-axis NNE-SSW) across the ESE-sector. The monument has been levelled with very little trace to W of the tertiary road. The low profile remains evident to ESE of the road are defined by a scarp (Wth 1m; H 0.1m) and a fosse (basal Wth 0.65m; overall Wth 3.25m; D 0.2m) NE-SE. A cropmark is not readily visible on modern aerial photography due to shadows cast by the adjacent tree-lined field boundaries (Digital Globe 2012). Identified during cartographic analysis of OS mapping for the Clare Archaeological Survey 2017.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-166----_01.jpg General view of remains in E field from ESE.
CL035-166----_02.jpg Cross-sectional view of low-level remains from SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.