Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybreen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybreen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sheep fold
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98888, -9.22770
- SMR number
- CL016-009----
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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
Situated near the top of a low rise on a S-facing slope in pasture and outcrop. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Indicated and named ‘Sheepfold’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. A circular area (25.5m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (H 1.45m; Wth 0.8m at base) from S through N to E. There is no evidence of a former wall continuing at SE. The wall has collapsed at NW where its two faces and rubble core are exposed. A gap at N has been filled in. The wall is similar to nearby field boundaries. The interior is 0.2m higher than the surrounding ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.