Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Kiltacky More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltacky More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04369, -8.95810
- SMR number
- CL011-001----
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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
Indicated intermittently on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Marked and named ‘Sir Donat’s Road’ on Robinson’s 1977 two-inch map of the uplands of North-West Clare. This a 17th-century road built under the auspices of Donat O’Brien and described by Westropp (1900, 407) as a long road or lane-way which extended from Leamaneh Castle (CL016-032003-) ‘for many miles eastward, and bears in several places the name “Sir Donat’s-road”’.
The section of road recorded in Kiltacky More townland ran NW-SE for c. 400m, meeting the modern road at its SE end opposite a church (CL011-003001-) and graveyard (CL011-003002-). Its route now crosses improved pasture along the NE edge of exposed limestone pavement and no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 January 2023
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Westropp, T.J. 1900 Excursions of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Summer meeting, 1900. Description of the places visited. Section IV. Fourth excursion. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 420-26.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.