Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyallaban
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08568, -9.16270
- SMR number
- CL005-094005-
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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
Described by Westropp (1901, 284) as the, ‘foundation of an oval caher … in a grassy field east of Cahermore’ (CL005-094002-), but now overgrown with hazel scrub, with the ground falling steeply away to E. Indicated on the first edition (1842) and hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map.
A moderately well-preserved subcircular enclosure (int. diams 26m E-W; 22m N-S) is defined by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-6m; H 0.8-1.1m) with a gap (Wth 3.6m) at WSW that may be the original entrance. A later field boundary wall overlies the enclosing element NW-E-SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 20 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.