Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Finnor More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnor More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Finnor Castle (Site of) (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79612, -9.41686
- SMR number
- CL038-039002-
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
At the summit of an E-W ridge. There are no known references to a castle here, and there are no traditions associated with it. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a very slight scarp (H 0.8m; Wth 10m). A rectangular hollow (dims. 7m NE-SW 3m NW-SE; D 0.6-0.7m) at is N edge may be the site of a structure or a quarry like the larger quarry (dims. 22m N-S; 10m E-W; max. D 1.8m) just 3m to S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.