Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Kilbaha South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbaha South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55604, -9.88906
- SMR number
- CL071-014001-
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 on the W side of a very narrow neck of land joining Horse Island to the mainland. A quantity of limpet shells forming part of the fill of a fosse. The fosse itself forms part of the inner defences of a promontory fort (CL071-014----) excavated in 2006 (Lynch and Jones 2009, 57)(Licence no. 06E0260).
CL071-014001-_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 December 2014
References
Lynch, M. and Jones, C. 2009 Dunmore Head, Horse Island, Kilbaha South. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 57 (no. 252). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.