Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Trusklieve, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trusklieve
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62763, -9.78484
- SMR number
- CL065-127----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 c. 13km NE from Loop Head in an area of undulating poor quality grassland and bog. A small triangular area (c. 30m NE-SW x 23m NW-SE) is all grass cover that remains on a detached island (c. 200m x 80m). Traces of an earthen bank extending along the cliff-edge in this grassy area can be seen on aerial photographs and may be the remains of a promontory fort. The island is inaccessible. (Casey 1999, 217, Clare P10)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 September 2016
References
Casey, M. 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.