Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Aillwee,ballyhehan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillwee,ballyhehan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09394, -9.09238
- SMR number
- CL006-009003-
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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 narrow level terrace on the W face of a steep-sided ridge in an area of very rough and overgrown rock outcrop, extending from and surrounding a cashel (CL006-009----). A field system comprised of several elements likely of multiperiod origin. A tumbled field wall radiates off the SE of the cashel and joins a second tumbled field wall which encloses the cashel in a concentric line from SE–NW, but then runs in a more angular fashion from NW–SE. This wall acts as and forms a kink in the townland boundary from W–NW (H 1.6m; Wth 0.5–0.8m). It is single-walled, and drystone built, but may follow an older boundary line. To the E and the SE of this outer wall meandering single stonewalls form small irregularly shaped fields and encompass another potential enclosure (CL006-009004-) c. 60m SE of the cashel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.