Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.98723, -9.16867
- SMR number
- CL016-020042-
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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 on a spur extending WSW from a shelf at the base of Ballyganner hill. An oval enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank with a subcircular house site (CL016-020043-)(diam. c. 7m) in the centre visible on OS ortho aerial photographs and on Bing maps at http://binged.it/188d5ze; accessed 10 March 2015. A cashel (CL016-020012-) lies slightly upslope c. 30m to the E. Both the cashel and the enclosure are within a large field system (CL009-059001-/CL016-020001*).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 April 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.