Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Ballymulqueeny, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymulqueeny
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Coulclocha (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Coulcloha (in Ruins) (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.88331, -8.95929
- SMR number
- CL026-075----
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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
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope on the N side of an E-W laneway at a point where it turns S. Indicated and named 'Coulcloha (in ruins)' on both the 1840 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, an anglicization of 'Cabhail Clocha' meaning 'Stone Ruin'. A five-bay two-storey house with attic (ext. dims. 15.05m ENE-WSW; 8.05m NNW-SSE) built of erratically coursed rubble field stones set in strong lime mortar with massive rough quoins on the corners (wall T 0.6m). The front (or SE) wall is not extant but the rear and gable walls survive to two storeys. An inserted cross-wall divides the house into two chambers, and because it is dug into the slope the W chamber at the ground floor has no surviving windows or doors. At the first floor there may have been five windows on the N wall and there were fireplaces on the E and W gables. Splayed, tall, narrow openings survive on the rear wall. The house is likely to date to around the late 17th century. (pers. comm. Risteard Ua Cróinín, Feb. 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.