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House - indeterminate date

Ballynahown, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Ballynahown, 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
Ballynahown
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.07299, -9.33289
SMR number
CL004-027017-

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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 SW sector, near the inner wall face of ‘Caherdoon’ (CL004-027003-). Both this house site and a second, nearby one in the SE sector (CL004-027016-) are recorded as roofed structures on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (1830s), and both are recorded on Westropp’s plan of ‘Caherdoon’ (1905, 347) and described as, ‘… two modern huts, inhabited down to very recent times’ (op. cit. 351). However, habitation down to the, then, ‘very recent times’ may reflect continuity of use, or reuse, over time and not necessarily indicate ‘modern huts’.
A poorly preserved rectangular structure (ext. L 5m NW-SE; int. Wth 2.3m NE-SW) enclosed by a stone wall (Wth 0.7m; H 0.9m), the SW-end of which may originally have abutted the inner wall face of the cashel.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 17 October 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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