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
- Coordinates
- 52.96859, -9.05279
- SMR number
- CL017-080----
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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 S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted on the first edition (1842) of the OS map as a circular ringfort (est. diam. c. 28m) and hachured on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. When inspected in 1998, this levelled enclosure was not traceable at ground level. A later WNW-ESE running field wall overlay its N perimeter and a large spoil heap covered its NW edges. The enclosure’s perimeter from SE-S is visible in satellite imagery (MapGenie Imagery 2013-2018) as a faint curving grass-covered bank. A second levelled enclosure (CL017-081----) lies c. 110m to the SE
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 22 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.