Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyallaban
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08845, -9.14554
- SMR number
- CL005-097----
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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
On a level terrace near the base of the NW-facing slopes of Ailwee Hill, surrounded by hazel scrub, whitethorn and ash. Indicated on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map.
An almost circular enclosure (ext. diams. 25m N-S; 23.5m E-W) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.3-3m; H 0.5-0.8m) on which a low modern stone wall has been built. A boulder (H0.4m) set in the outer edge at NE may be a remnant of outer wall facing.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 16 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.