Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Teernea, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teernea
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pillar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower
- Coordinates
- 52.96037, -8.98317
- SMR number
- CL017-217----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated just off the summit of a low hill in pasture. Indicated and named ‘Pillar’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and ‘Tower’ on the 1916 edition. A solid masonry structure (H 3.9m; 1.75m x 1.8m) built on rock outcrop with an incomplete conical top. The NE side has protruding steps which rise to the top. Known locally as ‘Bridgeman’s Tower’, this was in full view of Teernea House once owned by the Bridgeman family, and may have been used as a flagstand.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.