Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09746, -9.14279
- SMR number
- CL005-054003-
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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
In the W sector of Cahernahooan cashel (CL005-054----). A NW-SE orientated rectangular house site (L 13.55m; Wth 6.9m) defined by a bank of stone and earth (Wth 0.6-0.77m; H 0.32-0.45m) faced with stones set on edge. The house is not dissimilar in form to that in Caherconnell cashel (CL009-030010-) dated to between the 15th and 17th century (Comber and Hull 2010, 158). Hollows in the interior likely mark an extension to a souterrain (CL005-054002-) which is entered just of the N house. A later E-W field wall cuts across the centre of the structure.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 8 June 2022
References
Comber, M., and Hull, G. 2010 Excavations at Caherconnell cashel, the Burren, Co. Clare: Implications for cashel chronology and Gaelic settlement. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110C, 133–71.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.