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
- 53.09698, -9.26569
- SMR number
- CL004-016041-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.