Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83472, -8.78238
- SMR number
- CL035-169----
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
In Beech woodland, on a generally level area of ground, within a wider network of moss-covered field walls, c. 18m to E of enclosure (CL035-117----). Not depicted upon OS historic mapping. An oval area (3.8m N-S; 2.75m E-W) defined by the remains of a collapsed drystone wall (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at top 1.1m; overall Wth 2.65m) which is best preserved SE-W-NE and has collapsed outwards NE-S-SE. There is no obvious entrance or evidence of an outer fosse or ditch. The interior is generally level and bowl-shaped. Beech trees grow around top of bank.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-169----_01.jpg From NE. Cross-sectional view of stone bank at SE.
CL036-169----_02.jpg From SSE. View of interior defined either side by 2 x 1m rod.
CL035-169----_03.jpg From N. General view of monument defined either side by 2 x 2m rod.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.