Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyallaban
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09171, -9.16228
- SMR number
- CL005-036----
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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 overgrown karst in an area surrounded by intensively improved pasture on the floor of Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and potentially recorded as one of ‘three stone forts’ by Westropp (1901, 285). Inspections in 1997 and 2007 did not identify any remains however differential tree growth at the 1st ed. mapped location is faintly visible on a Google Earth image taken 25 April 2021 and may indicate the presence of the enclosure. A cashel (CL005-037----) is located c. 90m to the NNE.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL005-036----_01.jpg Google Earth image 25 April 2021.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Canalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.