Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Cloonalisk, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonalisk
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.92821, -8.03999
- SMR number
- OF044-002----
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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
Located on a low natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Irregular shaped area (diam. 48m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved scarp (H 0.3m) with gap (Wth 5m) at NE. This appears to have been a natural hillock the base of which has been scarped possibly as a landscape feature such as a tree-ring. No monument is depicted in this area on the 1883 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map depicts a circular grove of trees and not an antiquity.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 04 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.