Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Ballyhickey, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhickey
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83191, -8.86024
- SMR number
- CL034-135----
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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
Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). Indicated as an enclosure with trees on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S and SW-facing slope. A subcircular area (int. dims. 33m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a narrow wall spread (Wth 1.2-2m; H 0.5-0.8m) which is partly collapsed. There is no visible entrance or internal features, but there are ash trees growing on the perimeter with hazel in the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.