Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyportry North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyportry North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95732, -9.05779
- SMR number
- CL017-077----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge in pasture, offering wide views. Indicated on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This large overgrown subcircular enclosure (69m E-W; 60m N-S) is defined from ESE-S-SW by a possibly partly natural scarp (Wth c. 1-2m; H 1.2-2.2m), overlying rock outcrop at S where the scarp overlooks several derelict 18/19th-century houses. From SW-W-NW, the original enclosing bank is overlain by a later drystone wall (H 0.8-1m). A farm track (Wth 3.9m) runs inside it, and there is a grass-covered spread of stones (Wth 10.5m; H 0.3-0.5m) inside again, to E. The track continues S from the SW edge of the cashel. The collapsed remains of what was probably a later double-faced field wall (Wth 2m; H 0.6-0.8m) overlie the possible vestiges of the enclosing bank from NW-NE-ESE. In the NE quadrant of the heavily overgrown interior and abutting its perimeter, is a rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 22.4m NW-SE; 18.8m NE-SW) defined by a band of stone collapse (Wth 1.7m; H 0.8m) along the W and by a scarp (H 0.3-0.8m) along the S.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 22 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.