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Enclosure

Ballykeel South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballykeel 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
Ballykeel South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99528, -9.22387
SMR number
CL009-089002-

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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 an area of pastureland, and the remains of a mixed tree plantation, on the flat summit of a low hill within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-) and a local field system (CL009-249----). This subcircular enclosure (int. dims. 9.2m N-S; 6m E-W) came to light when the area was inspected in April 1998 to survey a standing stone (CL009-089----). The enclosure is overlain just S of centre by a later field wall (H 1.4m; Wth 0.7m). To the N of the wall it is defined by a low grassed-covered stony spread (Wth 3-5m; H 0.2-0.4m) that is denuded at E and W by a tractor track which crosses the site. There is a beech tree on it at NE. To the S of the wall it is defined by a low scarp (H 0.6m) with an earthfast stone block (L 1m) at SE. A depression (diam. 5m; D 1.5m) immediately outside it at NW may be the result of quarrying. A slab-lined burial (CL009-090001-) lies c. 176m to ESE.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 24 May 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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