Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09075, -9.27603
- SMR number
- CL004-096----
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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 the NW slopes of Slieve Elva and named ‘Poll an Phuca’ on Robinson’s (1977) map and ‘Pollballyelly’ in Dowd’s list of caves (2015, 265). The cave (L 178m) carries a substantial streamway and on inspection in 2009 quantities of limpet shells of unknown date were noted inside of the cave entrance (Robin Sheen pers. comm. 2010) and have been recorded as a shell midden (Dowd 2015). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 1 June 2022
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes. Dowd, M. 2015 The archaeology of caves in Ireland. Oxford. Oxbow Books.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.