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Hut site

Gorteen (Dangan ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, 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
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.

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 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

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

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