Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.