Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymihil, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymihil
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05985, -9.12302
- SMR number
- CL005-160009-
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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
In elevated rocky pasture within with commanding views from E to N. Within a field system (CL005-160001-). Indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A subcircular drystone enclosure (28m N-S; 24m E-W) with a flat interior and no visible entrance. A house site (CL005-309----) occupies the centre of the enclosure. A cashel (CL005-160015-) is located c. 80m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 22 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.