Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
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
- 52.78257, -8.87796
- SMR number
- CL042-074028-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A number of field walls occur on Mooghaun hill representing more than one phase of land enclosure. In the SE quadrant of the inner enclosure of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-), two walls (CL042-074028- and CL042-074029-) are likely to be ancient features. One wall (CL042-074028-) extends S for 22m from the centre of the quadrant onto the rampart. It consists of large limestone blocks set directly on the bedrock or propped on smaller stones. In part up to three courses survive up to 0.8m in height. At the S end the wall was constructed on the rampart itself and turns sharply to the W, running along the summit of the rampart. (Grogan 1995, 57, fig. 28; Condit and Grogan 2005, 127; Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 131, 141)
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.
Grogan, E. 2005 The North Munster Project, Vol. 1: The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Bray. Wordwell.
Grogan, E. 1995 Excavations at Mooghaun South, 1993. Interim report. Discovery Programme Reports 2, 57. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 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.