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Hut site

Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Mooghaun South, 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
Mooghaun South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.78389, -8.88089
SMR number
CL042-074005-

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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

Situated close to the inner face of the wall in the N quadrant of a cashel (CL042-074004-) on the NW perimeter of the outer rampart of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). Indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map, this is a circular hut site (diam. 3.5m) defined by a double-kerbed wall with a rubble fill, identical to houses (CL042-074015- and CL042-074016-) excavated in 1994 as part of the North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme between the inner and middle ramparts of the hillfort at SW. The perimeter at N is partly obscured by rubble from the cashel wall but the house may have been free-standing. A slab-lined entrance faces west, away from the enclosure entrance. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 123; Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 159)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 5 January 2016

References

Condit, T. and Grogan, E. 2005 Mooghaun South: general site description. In E. Grogan, The North Munster Project, vol. 1, 103-130.

Grogan, E. 2005 The North Munster Project, Vol. 1: The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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