Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.