Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09664, -9.27982
- SMR number
- CL004-016010-
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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
In a well-sheltered slightly hollowed area on the NW slopes of a Slieve Elva, with commanding views WSW–NE. A poorly preserved roughly oval enclosure (int. dims. 19m NNW–SSE; 14m WSW–ENE) defined by a bank of stone and earth (Wth 1.6–2.1m; H 0.65–0.8m) only clearly evident from NE–WSW and as a slight scarp at N. A later field wall obscures the enclosing element along the NW while from WSW–NW a feint low stony bank forms the limit. An entrance (Wth 0.8m) to the NE is probably original. The enclosure lies within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-), covering an area of c. 8sqkm. A cashel (CL004-016011-), also within that field system, is located c. 60m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 23 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.