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Building

Cushacorra, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Cushacorra, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cushacorra
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Convent (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Convent (in Ruins) (1916)
Coordinates
53.06843, -8.95415
SMR number
CL007-003002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 along the S edge of a heavily overgrown ecclesiastical enclosure (CL007-003001-), on the S crest of a low E–W in cleared improved pasture. Indicated and named ‘Convent (in ruins)’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A ruined building defined by a mass of tumbled stone (12m NW–SE; 8m NE-SW).
A children’s burial ground (CL007-003003-) lies immediately SE and a church (CL007-003004-) lies 10m to the NW. A holy well (CL007-002----) lies c. 70 to the WNW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 30 September 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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