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Enclosure

Milltown, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Milltown, 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
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----

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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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