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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02746, -9.17434
- SMR number
- CL009-013021-
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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 pasture on the Burren plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). A possible enclosure/cashel with mound walls in the interior, and possible associated field walls to the N, is visible on OSi digitalglobe aerial imagery (2011-2013). Indicated on the current OSi mapping as a roughly subrectangular field boundary (c. 23m E-W; c. 20m N-S). Noted by Conn Herriott. Possible enclosures (CL009-0013020- and CL009-013022-) lie c. 20m to the NE and c. 55m to the SW respectively.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 November 2021
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.