Enclosure in Ballymurphy, County Clare

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What is recorded here

Situated just inside the E margin of a reclaimed area on the Burren plateau. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular enclosure (diam. c. 16m) is indicated by a solid line on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1998 this area and the fields to the W were found to be completely reclaimed and there was no enclosure visible at ground level. No trace visible on any available aerial photography. This is likely to have been a drystone walled enclosure of post-1700 date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL009-013012

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