Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.06092, -9.33345
- SMR number
- CL004-065001-
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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 ground in a rocky area with slightly higher ground to the NE and with great views from SW to NNW. Described by Westropp (1905, 349) as ‘a curious hut’ (int. dims 5.88m) which ‘consists of a circular wall of large blocks’, (T 0.94m) with a ‘gateway’ (Wth c. 1m) in the N face and ‘the nearly-closed mouth of a souterrain’ (CL004-065004-) in the E.
A circular hut site (int. dims. 5.8m E-W; 5.3m N-S) defined by a stone wall (T 1.1-1.4m; ext. H 0.5m; int. H 1-1.6m) which is heavily overgrown with whitethorn. There is collapsed stone in the interior with clear space from E to S but no trace of the souterrain referred to by Westropp. A cashel (CL004-065002-) is located c. 50m to the N and another cashel (CL004-065003-) is located c. 65m to the NE. A cairn (CL004-059----) is located c. 96m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 30 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.