Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.09731, -9.27109
- SMR number
- CL004-016018-
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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 W-facing slope with commanding views from WSW to N and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-). Indicated on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
An oval cashel (ext. dims. 29.5m E-W; 24.7m N-S; int. dims. 28.2m E-W; 23.3m N-S) defined by a partly collapsed wall (T 0.5m at E; T 0.8m at W) which has been demolished from NNE to ENE. The original outer wall-facing survives intermittently (max. H 1m at N and W). A wall (L c. 4m) which is partially obscured by rubble extends from W to NW inside the main cashel wall and may be contemporary. A gap (Wth 4m) at SW may be modern. A pile of rubble lies in the NNE interior and may be recent and a modern shed overlaps the cashel wall at SE. A roughly circular house foundation (CL004-016032-) abuts the interior of the cashel wall at E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 9 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.