Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyportry South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyportry South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.95774, -9.04288
- SMR number
- CL017-084003-
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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 slight rise in level rough pasture. Indicated on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This rectangular enclosure (27.5m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) is defined by the remains of a masonry wall bonded with yellow mortar, which is most clearly traceable on the SE side. The N half of the enclosure’s NE side is defined by the 17th century bawn (CL017-084001-) of Ballyportry Castle, a tower house (CL017-084002-) with which this enclosure may be associated as an outer yard. A flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3.4m) outside the enclosure on the SW side appears to be a quarry ditch. Outside the SE side of the enclosure is a cliff (H c. 3m) which extends N to the E corner bastion of the tower house’s bawn.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 14-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.