Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Seafield, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seafield
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- White Point Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.80445, -9.47901
- SMR number
- CL038-005----
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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
At the N edge of a terrace overlooking the sea c. 1km to N. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 76m E-W; 70m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-4m; int. H 0.6-1.2m; ext. H 1.3-1.8m) which is incorporated into a field bank S-NNW. There is no visible fosse and no entrance other than a modern one at S. A hut site (CL038-005002-) is slightly to E of centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.