Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ardsollus, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardsollus
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79999, -8.88867
- SMR number
- CL042-192----
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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
On a N-S limestone ridge overlooking the River Rine 60m to the E. This monument was visited on 3 November 2017 by Frank Coyne (Aegis Archaeology) in connection with an Archaeological Impact Assessment. He describes it as 'a circular area (diam. 18m E-W) defined by a stony bank with an entrance (Wth 2.5m) at S. The bank is less well defined at N. The interior slopes gently to S.'
Revised by: Mary Tunney with information supplied by Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology.
Date of revision: 7 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.