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Enclosure

Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, 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
53.08026, -9.14195
SMR number
CL005-301----

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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

On a high (between 700’ and 800’ contours) level terrace in rough pasture near the S-end of Ailwee Hill, and within an extensive, multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Visible on GeoHive MapGenie aerial imagery (2013-18; accessed 18-1-2023) as a large, oval enclosure (est. diams. c. 70m SW-NE; c. 42m NE-SW) defined by a partially tumbled stone wall/spread. The interior contains a cairn (CL005-221----) to the S of the centre and a second cairn CL005-222----) c. 30m to its SW appears to sit on the enclosure’s line and thus post-dates it.

See attached image: CL005-301----_01 Snip from GeoHive MapGenie aerial imagery (2013-18; accessed 18-1-2023)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 18 January 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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