Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballyelly Caher
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyelly Caher (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.09450, -9.27950
- SMR number
- CL004-016013-
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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 terrace on the W-facing slope on the NW side of Slieve Elva, with commanding views WSW–NE. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured and named ‘Ballyelly Caher’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1901, 10) recorded it along with the other cashels in the vicinity.
A circular cashel (ext. diam. 30m) defined by a stone bank/wall (Wth 3–4.5m; ext. H 0.35–2.25m; int. H 0.7–0.85m) with well-preserved outer face but a largely robbed and scattered internal face. Internally there are the remains of two rectangular structures of indeterminate date (CL004-016038- and CL004-016039-).
This cashel lies within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-), covering an area of c. 8sqkm. An enclosure (CL004-016008-) and two cashels (CL004-016012- and CL004-016014-) also within that field system, are located c. 15m W, 85m N and 50m SE respectively.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.