Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Gragan West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragan West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06362, -9.19240
- SMR number
- CL005-115013-
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
In an area built over by a farmyard near the top of Corkscrew Hill, with views over Ballyvaughan Bay to N and within multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Listed as 'Settlement' in the RMP (1996). Isolated pockets of archaeological deposits were disturbed c. 35m N of a burial cairn (CL005-115002-). Slag, animal bone and flecks of burnt clay were observed and a stone dagger/knife, a bronze object with raised mid-rib (possible dagger) were recovered (ibid.).
Reference:
Cotter, C. 1989. 1988:04 - Gragan West, Clare. In I. Bennet (eds) Excavations 1988. Wordwell: Bray. Available online @ https://excavations.ie/report/1988/Clare/0000769/
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.