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Gateway

Leamaneh North,Sheshymore, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Gateway, Leamaneh North, Sheshymore, 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
Leamaneh North,Sheshymore
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99171, -9.14139
SMR number
CL016-020032-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

Within a field system (CL009-059001-), on the summit of an E-W ridge overlooking ‘Leamaneh Castle’ (CL016-032002-) c. 455m to the SSE. Two stone piers, defining a now partially blocked-up gateway (Wth 2.8m), are built into the stonework of the townland boundary wall between Leamaneh North and Sheshymore, just at the junction of a NNW-SSE running field wall leading towards the castle. Both piers are rebated and constructed of dressed stonework; they are built into a section of drystone walling aligned ENE-WSW. In the rebate in the E pier (L 2.6m; Wth 0.77m; max. H 0.8m) there are two rectangular holes. The upper hole (L 0.08m; Wth 0.08m) is smaller than the lower hole (L 0.16m; Wth 0.1m) and both are shallow. Some stone has been removed from the S face of this pier. In the rebate in the W pier (L 2.4m; Wth 0.82m; max. H 1.24m) there are two ledges (H 0.12m; D 0.08m) and on top of the pier there is a stone (L 0.65m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.1m) with a mortice (L 0.16m; Wth 0.13m; D 0.09m). This gateway is similar to another one (CL016-032008-), c. 415m to the S, which is associated with the castle.

The following image has been uploaded: CL016-020032-_01jpg. View from S

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 21 April 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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