Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Kilweelran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilweelran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.10639, -9.09808
- SMR number
- CL006-006001-
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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 gentle S-facing downslope at the S foot of a steep rise in improved pasture. A poorly preserved circular mound (diam. at base 20.6m; max. H 1.4m) with a flat top (8.2m E–W; 1m N–S) and gently sloping sides. A drystone-walled enclosure (L 7m N–S; Wth 6m ext.) is built into the E end. It contains a concrete water tank off which two channels run. The channel to the S reveals the mound composition to include earth and small stones. The OS parish namebooks for Kilweelran in 1839 (Placenames database of Ireland) list four ancient forts in the townland ‘standing in a direct line from east towards N. west about 8 chains [c. 160m] apart’. Enclosures are located c. 150m to the S (CL006-003002-), 90m to the S (CL006-004----) and c. 130m NNE (CL006-007----). A ‘holy tree’ (CL006-006002-) lies c. 30m to the N and a children’s burial ground (CL006-003001-) c. 130m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
References
Placenames database of Ireland. Available at https://www.logainm.ie/en/5737?s=Balliny+north (accessed 22 September 2020).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.