Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballard (inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballard (inchiquin By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.98431, -9.01194
- SMR number
- CL017-045----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Also recorded on the intervening and larger scale OS 25-inch plan (1897) where it is recorded as a roughly circular area (est. diams. c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by a short length of bank at NE, a scarp from NE-E-SSW and a counterscap from SSW-NW-NE. A later field boundary is shown running on the counterscarp between NW and NNE and may incorporate part of an earlier enclosing element. When inspected in 1999, no visible surface trace of the enclosing element from NNE-S-NW was visible, however subsurface archaeological deposits may survive intact.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.