Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheepfold
Ballyinsheen Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyinsheen Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03589, -9.27193
- SMR number
- CL008-045009-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in an area of rocky karst outcrop overlooked by higher ground to N. An oval area (6.3m N-S by 6.1m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (H 1.15m at SW; Wth 1.4m at base) collapsed in a number of places. A pile of rubble lies in the E quadrant.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.