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Enclosure

Ballyportry South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyportry South, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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