Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballyinsheen Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyinsheen Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03713, -9.27146
- SMR number
- CL008-045010-
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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
In an area of undulating pastureland and karstic limestone outcrops, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This subcircular hut site (6.8m NNW-SSE; 4.7m ENE-WSW) is defined by a collapsed and grass-covered stone wall (Wth 1.8m; H 1.15m). The interior is slightly concave. There is a cashel (CL008-045002-) c. 16m to the E.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.