Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballyhenna, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhenna
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04731, -9.25518
- SMR number
- CL008-053004-
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
On a gentle S-facing slope, in undulating pastureland and karst limestone outcrops, within a field system (CL008-053001-). This circular hut site (int. diam. 4.6m) is defined by a collapsed and grass-covered wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.45m) with an entrance gap (Wth 0.7m) at the NW. A possible cashel (CL008-053002-) lies c. 36.5m to the SSW.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-053004- View from SW
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 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.