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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78408, -8.87895
- SMR number
- CL042-074010-
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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 NW-facing slope outside the middle rampart in the NW quadrant of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). A circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 25m) defined by a double-kerbed wall with a rubble core. A slightly smaller enclosure (CL042-074009-) (diam. c. 18m) lies 7m to the W and another enclosure (CL042-074008-) lies c. 47m to the SW. A date in the middle to late Bronze Age is suggested for these enclosures based on similarities to enclosures of that date elsewhere in the region (Condit and Grogan 2005, 127). (Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 191)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.