Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Platformunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.