Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08942, -9.13215
- SMR number
- CL005-246----
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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
High on the NW slopes of Ailwee Hill and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). A suboval enclosure (c. 70m NE-SW; c. 40 m NW-SE) defined by a bank and visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe. A modern trackway cuts through the site from N to SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.