Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymurphy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurphy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02813, -9.17456
- SMR number
- CL009-013012-
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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
Situated just inside the E margin of a reclaimed area on the Burren plateau. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular enclosure (diam. c. 16m) is indicated by a solid line on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1998 this area and the fields to the W were found to be completely reclaimed and there was no enclosure visible at ground level. No trace visible on any available aerial photography. This is likely to have been a drystone walled enclosure of post-1700 date.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 15 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.