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Enclosure

Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyganner South, 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
Ballyganner South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
52.99648, -9.15992
SMR number
CL009-059073-

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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

Situated in a slight hollow on a N-facing slope within a very extensive field system (CL009-059001-) spanning several townlands. Listed as ‘Cashel’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Westropp (1897, 120) cited three cahers on the hill but it is unclear if this site was intended. On inspection in 1997 this was found to be a subcircular area (int. dims. 26.6m E-W; 23.3m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (H c. 1m) with some ‘post and panel’ construction N-SE. A natural shelf exists inside the perimeter SSE-NNW (Wth 3-6m; H 0.5m). The enclosure may have been built to protect livestock from injuring themselves on the shelf.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 24 February 2016

References

Westropp, T.J. 1897 Prehistoric stone forts of northern Clare, part III. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 27, 116-27.

Nearby in the register

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

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