Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Bishopsquarter, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bishopsquarter
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12303, -9.12520
- SMR number
- CL002-014004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Exposed in the section of a path passing NNE–SSW through a graveyard (CL002-014001-) just W of the W gable of Drumcreehy church (CL002-014002-). An exposed midden section (L 6m; H 0.8m) comprising a light concentration of oyster and periwinkle shell. A possible wall-footing consisting of 3 courses of undressed blocks (H 0.5m; Wth 0.6m) with no obvious mortar present occurs at its N end.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 30 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.