Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballycotteen South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycotteen South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96032, -9.38469
- SMR number
- CL015-142----
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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 wet pasture on a N-facing slope overlooked by higher ground to the SW with good views to the N, c. 110m SW of a stream. A circular enclosure (diam. 33m) defined by a low earthen bank (H 0.2m; Wth 3-3.5m), reduced to a barely visible scarp to the E, and surrounded by a wet depression (Wth 2.5m) covered in rushes. Visible on OSi orthophotograph (MapGenie 1995). The interior is flat with no visible features.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 29 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.