Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
School
Cahermacnaghten, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacnaghten
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- ODavorens Sch (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04601, -9.19842
- SMR number
- CL009-001011-
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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 ‘School’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) and named ‘O’Davoren’s Sch. (Site of)’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map within Cathair Mhic Neachtain (CL009-001010-). The fort has been regarded as the home of one of Ireland's most famous medieval law schools run by the O'Davoren family. However, according to FitzPatrick (2008, 58-9) it is unsure whether the cashel was ever actually used as the location for the law school of the brehon line. She notes that the late medieval building known as ‘Cabhail Tighe Breac’ (CL009-001009-) in the SW end of the townland has many attributes that might lend themselves to that purpose. Excavation at Cabhail Tighe Breac in 2008 revealed further evidence to support this. Caher Mhic Neachtain is a National Monument in State Care, no. 354.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 July 2018
References
Fitzpatrick, E. 2008 Antiquarian scholarship and the archaeology of Cahermacnaghten, Burren, Co. Clare. The Other Clare 32, 58-66.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.