Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyryan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyryan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04869, -9.36428
- SMR number
- CL008-023----
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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
Situated on a fairly level karst landscape with higher ground to the E and SE. Listed as ‘Cashel’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A rectangular enclosure was visible on a Geological Survey aerial photograph (GSIAP M341/2). On inspection in 2007 this was found to be a rectangular area of modern date (int. dims. 35.8m E-W; 29.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-0.7m; H 0.6-1m) with an entrance at the N end of the E side. Two stones, 0.8m apart, (N stone L 0.95m; Wth 0.2m; H 0.4m; S stone L 0.75m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.6m) in the interior are of unknown function. A D-shaped enclosure (int. dims. 24m E-W; 15m N-S) is attached at N, defined by the foundations of a drystone wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.