Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballyvara, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvara
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01142, -9.37291
- SMR number
- CL008-065----
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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
In undulating pastureland with wide views, marshy ground to the NE and a hillock to the SSE. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular ring-barrow (20.5m NE-SW; 18.7m NW-SE) is defined by a flat-based fosse (Wth 1.4-2.7m) and outer bank (Wth 3.3-4.2m; int. H 0.25; av. ext. H 0.25m). Several low limestone uprights are visible at the S part of the bank. At the NE and E field-clearance rubble is piled on the bank and the NE half is overgrown. At the NNW a small amount of bank material has been removed. The very low central mound (diam. 9.5m; H over fosse 0.15-0.2m) is quite level, but undulates at the NE. There is another ring-barrow (CL008-064----) c. 88m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 October 2022
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