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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballymahony, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballymahony, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballymahony
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02819, -9.21149
SMR number
CL009-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough pasture near the top of a SW-facing slope, overlooking a valley to the S. Listed as ‘Potential site (air photo)’ in the RMP (1996). On inspection it proved to be a ring-barrow defined by an uneven subcircular central platform (11.3m NE–SW; 10.1m NW–SE; H 0.3–0.5m) surrounded by a fosse (Wth 4.7–5.7m; D 0.3m–0.5m), and the remains of an outer bank (Wth 3.3m; H 0.3m) from W to NW. From S to W the fosse and outer bank are cut by a drainage ditch and field bank; elsewhere no entrance or causeway are visible. The interior slopes down from the NE to SW. There is a small grass-covered mound or rise (H 0.2m) in the N part of the interior, which may be a pre-modern spoil heap.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 21 October 2021

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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