Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballybreen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybreen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98897, -9.22967
- SMR number
- CL016-007----
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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
On a gentle rise in limestone outcrop in undulating pasture with good views in all directions and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). An irregular D-shaped enclosure (29m E-W; 24.7m N-S) defined by a randomly coursed drystone wall (Wth 4.4m; max. H 1.8m at SE) with a rubble core. The straight S side is defined by a field wall and there is no trace of the cashel wall beyond it to the S. Outer facing survives to six courses at E and W. The inner face is collapsed and the interior is overgrown. Another enclosure (CL016-009----) is located c. 98m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 1 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.