Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycahan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02996, -9.38614
- SMR number
- CL008-130003-
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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 the centre of a cashel (CL008-130001-) that lies within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). A subcircular enclosure (int. dims. 8.8m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by a collapsed and grass-covered wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.15m) with a gap (Wth 0.7m) at the N. A souterrain (CL008-130002-) lies c. 11m to the NE at the NW edge of another cashel (CL008-147----) visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018-.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of revision: 25 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.