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Enclosure

Clonmoney West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Clonmoney West, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonmoney West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70960, -8.83803
SMR number
CL051-179----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Trial excavation in 1999 (Licence no. 99E0640) in advance of road development on the N18/N19 Ballycasey-Dromoland Road Improvement Scheme determined that a low, grass-covered rectangular enclosure (39m x 20m) was most likely part of a medieval or post-medieval farmstead (Jones 2002, 24). The site was fully excavated in 2001 (Licence no. 01E0024) and a post-medieval date was confirmed (Murphy 2006, 13). The wall (av. Wth 1.5m) was faced internally and externally with large stones while the cavity was packed with smaller stones. Finds from the interior related to both domestic and industrial activities.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 26 July 2016

References

Murphy, D. 2006 Clonmoney West. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 13, No. 54. Bray. Wordwell.

Jones, C. 2002 Site 42, Clonmoney West. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 24, no. 64. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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