Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyvelaghan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvelaghan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15041, -9.07707
- SMR number
- CL003-014----
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope in improved mixed meadow and pastureland, c. 100m N of Ballyvelaghan Turlough. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but not marked on the 1915 ed. No visible trace of the monument survives at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.