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Enclosure

Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyallaban, 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
Ballyallaban
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.08468, -9.16444
SMR number
CL005-094001-

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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

Under dense hazel scrub and apparently partially overlying the outer enclosing line of the large bivallate cashel ‘Cahermore’ (CL005-094002-), and immediately NW of a second, smaller cashel (CL005-095004-). An enclosure recorded by Westropp (1901, 284) as a ‘moher… 117 feet (35.7m) across with walls 6 feet (1.8m) thick… nearly levelled since 1895.’
The first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map records a square enclosure/field (L c. 32m; Wth c. 32m) A poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (c. 40m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE), the SW-side of which forms part of the townland boundary with Gragan East. This may be the remains of a rectangular cashel.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 19 January 2023

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

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

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