Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballykeel South, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.