Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyryan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyryan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04689, -9.36636
- SMR number
- CL008-021----
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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 an overgrown limestone-pavement terrace, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-); the ground immediately to the SE falls away steeply while a higher terrace, further SE, overlooks it. Indicated as a field wall on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This D-shaped cashel (int. dim. 38.5m SW-NE) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 3.25m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.5-2m) from SW to NE; a straight side at SE is defined by a natural scarp (H 0.5m). The outer randomly coursed wall-face is visible from SW-NE; the inner wall-face survives intermittently and is one to two courses high. Two gaps (Wth c. 1-1.1m) at N and NE have been loosely filled with stones and both appear to be recent cattle gaps. Several field-clearance mounds are visible in the interior.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-021----_01.jpg View from NW
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 30 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.