Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyelly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.10086, -9.26868
- SMR number
- CL004-121----
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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 Knockaunsmountain within a large field system (CL004-016001-). A possible subrectangular cashel (c. 28m NE-SW; c. 24m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall visible at ITM 515040, 706339 on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.