Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballyhenna,cahercloggaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhenna,cahercloggaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04731, -9.25460
- SMR number
- CL008-053001-
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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
A network of irregular field walls (c. 1.km NE-SW; c. 800m NW-SE) visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018) extending across Ballyhenna and Cahercloggaun townlands and associated with 4 cashels including Cahercloggaun itself (CL004-077001-) and Cahermoyle (CL004-078----). A number of fields in the area have been reclaimed.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.