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Enclosure

Ballybreen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballybreen, 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
Ballybreen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ballybreen Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Ballybreen Fort (1916)
Coordinates
52.99225, -9.23563
SMR number
CL016-006----

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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 improved pasture on a SSE-facing slope, with good views, especially to S and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured and named ‘Ballybreen Fort’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Similarly named on the 1897 OS 25-inch map and depicted as an incomplete circle open to the NNW.
A somewhat overgrown circular enclosure (int. dims. 25.75m) defined by grassed-over wall collapse (Wth c. 1m) surmounted by a drystone wall (H 1.5m), probably of a later date. Two partly blocked-up alcoves (L 1m; Wth 1m) are visible in inner wall-face at E. The interior slopes gently to the S. A curving bank (Wth 7m; H 0.8m) visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) extends from S to W at a distance of c. 33m from S and c. 14m from W.
Two modern gates in the E and W walls give access to the interior which is currently serving as a cattle paddock. A concentric wall 4m outside the perimeter of the enclosure wall forms an avenue possibly now used for separating livestock.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 1 February 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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