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Enclosure

Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, 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
53.09590, -9.28030
SMR number
CL004-107----

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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 a N-facing slope within a large field system (CL004-016001-) and in an area with many cashels and enclosures. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank and possible fosse visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2012-2018). A cashel (CL004-016011-) lies c. 35m to the NE and another (CL004-016012-) lies c. 30m to the S.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL004-107----_01.jpg Ordnance Survey orthophoto 2012-2018.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 22 February 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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