Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballyinsheen Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyinsheen Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03419, -9.28626
- SMR number
- CL008-117----
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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 an E-W ridge (above 400’ contour) in boggy rough pasture, with wide views. Comprises a low (H 0.3m) circular mound (diam. 13.5m) with a shallow, rush-filled dip (D c. 0.1m) in its centre. Outside the mound at S a shallow, curving depression (Wth 1m) may be the remains of a fosse. A modern gap (Wth 2m) has been cut into the NW edge of the mound. Two barrows are visible nearby; CL008-116---- c. 170m to the NNE and CL008-118---- c. 135m to the ESE.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.