Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Ballyclancahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyclancahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97813, -9.15958
- SMR number
- CL016-123----
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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 the summit of a hill named Knockardnagowel. Described by Westropp (1913, 257-8) as a ‘conspicuous object from the north and the south, consisting of two great parallel mounds over the saddle of the hill’. The mounds were aligned N-S with slightly lower ground between them giving it the appearance of an ‘old wide embanked road’ (ibid.). This is a disused quarry. The mounds are spoil mounds thrown up to the E and W of a quarry strip (Wth c. 16m) which runs roughly N-S across the summit of the hill.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 25 July 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.