Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
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
- 53.09569, -9.26283
- SMR number
- CL004-016044-
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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 level terrace in the Burren uplands (above the 900 foot contour), a transhumance/winter grazing area, with good views in all directions and with Sliabh Eilbhe visible to the S. Within a large field system (CL004-016001-).
A mainly collapsed, circular clochan (diam. 9.2m) with portion of surviving wall along E (Wth 1.9m; H 2m) containing entrance/doorway lintels (Wth c. 1m), and traces of a potential window ope at W. Stands to N of centre of a large, subrectangular enclosure/field (49m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE). A small, rectangular livestock pen (est. L c. 5m E-W; Wth c. 4m N-S) abuts the external face of the enclosure at S
See attached CL004-016044-_1 Photo from west taken by Michael Lynch, 20-6-2008.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 30 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.