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House - 17th century

Ballykeel South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, 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
Ballykeel Ho. (in ruins) (1840)
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99518, -9.22021
SMR number
CL009-090002-

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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

On a narrow level shelf in the E slope of a low rise, in pasture and trees within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Depicted as a roughly T-shaped house and labelled ‘Ballykeel Ho. (in ruins)’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. By the time of the OS 25-inch plan (1897), only a step-shaped length of walling is shown. Indicated and labelled ‘Cabhail Bhetty’ on Robinson’s map (1977). All that survives is a step-shaped length of walling (H 3-4m; Wth 0.7-0.75m) built of coursed rubble masonry. A number of features are visible in the longest section (L 10m), which runs E-W. Moving from W these include: a wall cupboard (H 0.7m; L 1.26m; D 0.45m), robbed out at its W end, a rectangular window (H 0.45m; Wth 0.3m), a window embrasure (H 0.9m; int. Wth 0.65m; ext. Wth 0.4m), a blocked ope/doorway? (H 1.15m; int. Wth 1.1m) and another window embrasure (H 1.4m; int. Wth 0.7m; ext. Wth 0.48m), blocked externally. A later drystone wall extends to the N off the broken E end of this section. At the W end of it, the wall turns N (L 4.5m) and then W (L 2.6m). The window embrasures suggest that the house was possibly of 17th-century date. A slab-lined burial (CL009-090001-) lies c. 90m to the SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 24 May 2022

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

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

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