Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform
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
- 52.78379, -8.88087
- SMR number
- CL042-074026-
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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 at the NW portion of the outer rampart of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). This area was cleared of vegetation in the early 1990s as part of the North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme. The hillfort rampart appears to be absent in this location and instead there is a platform built of limestone rubble that extends 10m out from the line of the rampart, forming a D-shaped extension to the natural terrace. A cashel (CL042-074004-) is placed on the platform, though not centrally and an earlier enclosure (CL042-074003-) was revealed extending slightly S and E of the cashel. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 125)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 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.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.