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House - 17th century

Cahermacnaghten, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Cahermacnaghten, 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
Cahermacnaghten
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04228, -9.21023
SMR number
CL009-001045-

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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 c. 25m NW of Cabhail Tighe Breac (CL009-001009-) in the SW corner of Cahermacnaghten townland. The foundations of a small stone building (ext. dims. 6.93m E-W; 4.71m N-S) were excavated in 2010 (Licence no. 10E146; Clutterbuck and FitzPatrick 2013, 24-5). The building measured 3.46m by 5.66m internally with clay-bonded walls (T 0.62-0.79m; H 0.18- 0.67m) constructed either on old ground surface or on roughly packed limestone or stony clay. The entrance (Wth 0.92m) was at the N end of the E gable and survived as a fractured threshold stone and a pivot stone, both of which were cut and punch dressed and appear to have been reused, most likely from Cabhail Tighe Breac. A radiocarbon date of 1631-1688 (UBA-15892) was obtained from animal bone recovered from a primary deposit in the interior. A relict field boundary immediately N of the building appears to have been part of a contemporary enclosure.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 10 February 2016

References

Clutterbuck, R. and FitzPatrick, E. 2013 Cahermacnaghten. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 24-5, No. 88. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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