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Enclosure

Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyelly, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyelly
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ballyelly Caher (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1915)
Coordinates
53.09468, -9.28021
SMR number
CL004-016008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the inner edge of a shelf, on the NW-facing slopes of Slieve Elva, just below a cashel (CL004-016013-). A subcircular enclosure (ext. dims. 43.1m NE–SW; 38m NW–SE; int. dims. 41.4m NE–SW; 36.7m NW–SE) defined by a partially grassed-over drystone wall (H 0.4–0.8m). It surrounds a natural hollow markedly lower that the exterior ground. A rock-cut shelf (Wth 3m; H 1.6m) runs NE–S inside and merges with the line of the wall to the SW and NE. Grassed-over field walls extend from N and W and the enclosure lies within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-), covering an area of c. 8 sq km.
There is a dense cluster of cashels in the vicinity. One cashel (CL004-016013-) is just c.16m to the E, a second (CL004-016014-) is c. 85m SE. Two further cashels (CL004-016012- and CL004-016011-) are 75m and 125m to the NNE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 23 February 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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