Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyinsheen Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyinsheen Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03464, -9.28046
- SMR number
- CL008-043----
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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 the S-facing slope of a hill in an area of undulating rough pastureland with wide views to the S. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and visible on current aerial imagery (Aerial Premium 2013-2018). This subcircular enclosure (c. 16m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) is defined from NE-W by a low bank. From W-NE a field boundary and old laneway cut across it.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.