Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
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
- 53.03031, -9.37834
- SMR number
- CL008-150----
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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 rough pastureland in an area of outcropping limestone. A roughly square structure (c. 9m N-S; c. 9m E-W) is visible on current aerial imagery (Geohive MapGenie Imagery (2013-2018) and OSi Digitalglobe (2011-2013)). It is defined by a grassed-over wall. A cashel (CL008-004004-) lies c. 22m to the SW. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-004004-_01.jpg View from SE. The structure is visible centre right, to right of the cashel.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.