Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooghaun South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78368, -8.87977
- SMR number
- CL042-074008-
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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 on a slight NW-facing slope c. 10m N of a gap in the NW portion of the middle rampart of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). A subcircular area (ext. dims. 11.5m N-S; 14.5m E-W; int. dims. 7.3m N-S; 8.7m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (av. Wth 2.4m) best preserved at S and SW (H 0.4m). Except at NW the interior is lower than the surrounding ground level. A cairn (CL042-074025-) is in the centre of the enclosure. Excavated in 1995 as part of the North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme. No direct evidence for the date or function of the enclosure was found but Grogan (2005, vol. 1, 127) suggests a middle to late Bronze Age date based on similarities to enclosures of that date elsewhere in the region. Two more substantial enclosures (CL042-074009- and CL042-074010-) lie c. 22m and c. 47m to the NNE and NE respectively. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 126-7; Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 190-92)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 January 2016
References
Grogan, E. 2005 The North Munster Project, Vol. 1: The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Bray. Wordwell.
Condit, T. and Grogan, E. 2005 Mooghaun South: general site description. In E. Grogan, The North Munster Project, vol. 1, 103-130.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.