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Cave

Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cave, Ballyelly, 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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