Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballybaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98739, -9.16758
- SMR number
- CL016-020041-
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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
Within a cashel (CL016-020012-), just S of the centre. A boat-shaped depression (L 7.6m; Wth 3.2m; D 0.6m) aligned NNW-SSE with a large stone (L 0.8m; H 0.15m; T 0.4m) at the S end may be the remains of a souterrain.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 21 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.