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Enclosure

Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyelly, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyelly
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09698, -9.26569
SMR number
CL004-016041-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the Burren uplands in an area of exposed limestone, with good views in all directions except to the E and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-).

A subcircular enclosure (85m NE-SW; 76m NW-SE) reported by Michael Lynch. The enclosure is defined by a partially grassed-over double wall (Wth 1.2-1.9m) with a rubble core. From NE to S the wall runs along the edge of a natural terrace. A later wall orientated NW-SE cuts across the S half of the enclosure and a modern field boundary runs just outside the perimeter of the enclosure wall from SE to WSW. A wedge tomb (CL004-016042-) is located in the centre of the enclosure within a slightly sunken linear depression and a hut site (CL004-016043-) is located c. 8m NE of the tomb.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL004-016041-_01.jpg N wall and enclosure from N (photo: Michael Lynch)
CL004-016042-_02.jpg Wall at N from E (photo: Michael Lynch)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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