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House - indeterminate date

Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, 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
Coordinates
52.99773, -9.16285
SMR number
CL009-059107-

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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 within the N sector of the interior of a cashel (CL009-59064-), against the wall-face. Indicated on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This rectangular house (int. dims. 11.25m E-W, 6.5m N-S) is defined by denuded and grass-covered walls (H 0.4m; Wth 0.9-1.1m), which are probably clay-bonded; some visible lime-like accretions were probably washed out of the stone. The outer face of the N wall is not visible. FitzPatrick (2009, 299-300) noted that the quoinstones are rounded and that the house is of a similar size to the tighe móir or big house (CL009-001052-) in Cahermacnaghten (CL009-001010-), which dates to the late-medieval period or perhaps the first half of the 17th century. The remains of a tower house (CL009-059065-) stand in the S sector of the cashel. Its relationship with the house remains to be determined. If both are contemporary, the house may have functioned as a hall associated with the tower house; however, the house may pre- or post-date the tower (ibid., 302). Three other houses (CL009-059108-, CL009-059109- and CL009-059110-), also possibly associated, lie outside the cashel c. 18m to the E.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 7 April 2022

References

FitzPatrick, E. 2009 Native enclosed settlement and the problem of the Irish 'ring-fort'. Medieval Archaeology 53, 271–307.

Nearby in the register

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

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