Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Ballyalla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyalla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98080, -9.29353
- SMR number
- CL015-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 coarse marshy pasture on the summit of a prominent drumlin in a field of small drumlins c. 125m SE of the Cooleen River with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A bowl barrow (diam. c. 26m) comprising a mound (diam. 8.5m; H 1.55m), a flat-based fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.6m), and a flat-topped outer bank (Wth 5.5m; ext. H c. 2m; int. H 0.6m). The monument is covered in gorse.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 26 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.