Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
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
- 53.07315, -9.33295
- SMR number
- CL004-027014-
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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
In the NW sector of ‘Caherdoon’ (CL004-027003-) where it abuts the inner face of the cashel wall. Recorded on Westropp’s plan of ‘Caherdoon’ (1905, 347). A small, poorly preserved, rectangular structure (int. dims. 2.7m NW-SE; 2.15m NE-SW) is enclosed by the remains of a wide wall (Wth 1.05m; max. H 1m). An entrance gap/doorway (Wth 0.65m) is visible towards the NE end of the SE wall.
Compiled by; Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.