Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynahown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07234, -9.33709
- SMR number
- CL004-027012-
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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 high (above 500’ contour) level, rough grazing overlooking lower, terraced slopes to W, and within an extensive field system (CL004-027001-). Visible on aerial imagery and recorded on current OS mapping. A D-shaped area (est. diam. c. 12m E-W) with a straight W side (est. L c. 15m N-S) defined by a stone wall, which may be overlain by a later field wall along W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 October 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.