Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ballyvelaghan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvelaghan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15336, -9.07653
- SMR number
- CL003-015----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured feature at the NE angle of a rectangular field. It is situated on a level landscape. This is a rectangular mound of sand and gravel (dims 21m N-S; 2.2m E-W; H 1.8m) that is known locally to be the remainder of material brought in for the construction of the Villa Marina Constabulary Barracks c. 80m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 April, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.