Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballyinsheen More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyinsheen More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03572, -9.28596
- SMR number
- CL008-116----
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 hilltop in rough, boggy pasture, with wide views. The site comprises a very low (H 0.2m), subcircular mound (17m E-W; 16.5m N-S) surrounded by a wide, shallow fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.15-0.25m) SSE-W-NNE, and by a faint scarp NNE-E-SSE. A low, earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; H 0.1m) survives along the edge of the mound SSE-W. Two barrows are visible nearby; CL008-117---- c. 170m to the SSW and CL008-118---- c. 160m to the SE.
See attachment: CL008-116-----01.JPG Aerial view from NW (Markus Casey, 1998).
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.