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Quarry

Ballyclancahill, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Quarry, Ballyclancahill, 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
Ballyclancahill
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.97813, -9.15958
SMR number
CL016-123----

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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

On the summit of a hill named Knockardnagowel. Described by Westropp (1913, 257-8) as a ‘conspicuous object from the north and the south, consisting of two great parallel mounds over the saddle of the hill’. The mounds were aligned N-S with slightly lower ground between them giving it the appearance of an ‘old wide embanked road’ (ibid.). This is a disused quarry. The mounds are spoil mounds thrown up to the E and W of a quarry strip (Wth c. 16m) which runs roughly N-S across the summit of the hill.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 25 July 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.

Nearby in the register

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

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