Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyryan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyryan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06472, -9.35155
- SMR number
- CL004-049----
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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
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
Situated on an uneven rocky area overlooking the sea to W and SW. Listed as ‘Enclosure, possible’ in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1996). On inspection in 1998 this was found to be a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a stone wall of loose, modern construction. The interior slopes down to W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 January 2016
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.