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House - indeterminate date

Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, 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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.08521, -9.16456
SMR number
CL005-094007-

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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

Situated adjacent to the S wall of the inner enclosure at Cahermore (CL005-094002-). The remains of a subrectangular building (L 14m; Wth 6.8m) oriented E-W constructed of roughly coursed, large and small, uncut limestone blocks with a significant base batter. The surviving quoin stones are rounded externally but are not dressed. No trace of a doorway survives. The interior is strewn with rubble and the only surviving feature is a small chamber (1m N-S; 0.6m E-W) in the SE corner capped by two large irregular limestone slabs. Walls extending from this building at NW and S form an enclosed area with an entrance (Wth 0.5m) at N. Cahermore is a national monument in State care. (Fitzpatrick 2001, 50)

The following images are attached:
CL005-094007-_01.jpg W end of building showing base batter.
CL005-094007-_02.jpg Small chamber in SW corner.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 10 June 2015

References

Fitzpatrick, M. 2001 Cahermore stone fort, Co. Clare: Survey and Excavation. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 41, 45-64.

Nearby in the register

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

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