Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.10041, -9.27388
- SMR number
- CL004-016017-
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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 level ground on the W-facing slopes of a ridge with commanding views from SW to N and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-). Indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and depicted with an oval enclosure in the SW corner on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly circular cashel (23m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved wall which is level with the interior. The cashel wall is visible in the N (T 0.85-1m) and S (ext. H 0.5m) and the inner face of the wall (H 0.4m) at the E and S is occasionally visible. A later, oval enclosure abuts the interior perimeter of the cashel wall in the SW quadrant (L 11m N-S; Wth 7m E-W; T 0.7m; H 0.8m).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 9 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.