Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynacarrick (Ballintra ED), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarrick (Ballintra ED)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.57307, -8.12482
- SMR number
- DG103-078001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a slight elevation in gently undulating terrain broken by seams of limestone bedrock. Subcircular area (32m NW–SE; 28m NE–SW) defined by a low, moss- and grass-covered stone bank/wall (Wth c. 1.5- 2m). The stone bank is best preserved at NNE-SE where it incorporates large, irregular-shaped stone blocks, probably remnants of inner and outer wall facing. Elsewhere around the circuit, the stone bank is reduced to a slight rise or undulation from which occasional stones protrude, with sections at S and NW evident only as a mossy cropmark. The interior is grass-covered, with a few stones breaking the surface in the W half. The original entrance may have been at E where there appears to be a gap, marked on its outer S edge by a stone set perpendicular to the stone bank, and now partly obscured by stones and a hawthorn bush. There is a circular house (DG103-078002-) located 5m to SE, and another enclosure (DG103-079----) 170m to ENE.
Attached images:
DG103-078001-_01.JPG viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.