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House - medieval

Glencolumbkille North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - medieval, Glencolumbkille North, 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
Glencolumbkille North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.04874, -9.00872
SMR number
CL010-040004-

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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 in a bawn (CL010-040001-) on a high prominence surrounded by undulating, hazel-covered land. Indicated on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This large rectangular medieval house (21m NE-SW; 8.2m NW-SE) is defined by a stone wall (Wth 1.2m) at the NE (int. H 0.8; ext. H 0.5m), SE (int. H 2.4m; ext. H 2.8m) and SW. The SE wall of the house appears to have been incorporated into the surrounding bawn (CL010-040001-) wall. The present W wall (int. H 0.6m) is mostly of later date. In the inner face of the SW wall there is a partly blocked aumbry (Wth 1.2m; H 0.9m; D 0.88m) and a fireplace (Wth 1.77m; D 0.95m) with a well-shaped chamfered stone on its SE side. Ua Cróinín and Breen (1996, 9) suggested that three large double-corbels over the aumbry indicate a machicoulis for the defense of this corner of the bawn. Ua Cróinín and Breen (ibid.) also identified evidence for two NW-SE orientated internal walls in the house. There is a tower house (CL010-040002-) c. 6m to the NW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 18 April 2023

References

Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1996 Some tower houses with bawns in the Burren. The Other Clare 20, 5-13.

Nearby in the register

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

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