Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09264, -9.14258
- SMR number
- CL005-053001-
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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 NW-facing slope, under scrub and on the E side of Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1901, 282) referred to it as one of ‘seven cahers’ in this townland predominantly ‘small and levelled… [and] quite overthrown and crowded with sloe and thorn-bushes’.
A roughly circular enclosure (est. diam. 20-25m); on the basis of Westropp’s description it was likely a cashel. Inspection in 1998 could not locate any surviving above-ground trace of this monument. The area was very disturbed and midden-like material, including land-snail shells and seashells, were visible in the disturbance.
The site of a megalithic structure (CL005-053002-) is located c. 10m to the NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 8 June 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.