Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyryan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyryan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05901, -9.35473
- SMR number
- CL004-093001-
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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 a low rock rocky hillock in an area of scrub covered depressions with fair views to the N, NE and W. Indicated on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. A subcircular cashel (28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a drystone wall with outer facing visible from N to NE (T c. 1m; H 0.8m) and at ESE (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.1m; T 1.2m), overgrown elsewhere. A curved, overgrown, stony bank with internal facing inside the perimeter at S may be a house site (CL004-093003-). A souterrain (CL004-093002-) lies in the N interior. A large glacial erratic (H 1m) is located in the SW quadrant. A cashel and hut site (CL004-092---- and CL004-092002-) are located c. 98m to the W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 13 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.