Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballybaun Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballybaun Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.98798, -9.17444
- SMR number
- CL016-020004-
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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 knoll towards the bottom of an E-facing slope, in a reclaimed area. A circular enclosure (27.8m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at N and S; 1.2m at E) and cut to W of centre by a N-S field wall. At E there is a straight edge (L 9m) and a berm (Wth 4.5m) before the natural slope resumes. W of the field wall the platform is only 0.3m in height. A network of ruined field boundaries survives to the N of a modern E-W field boundary 6m to the N of the enclosure. Visible on Bing aerial photographs taken in 2012, http://binged.it/1vsE5ld and accessed 30 September 2014.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 September 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.