Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Cappanapeasta, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanapeasta
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97020, -8.87249
- SMR number
- CL018-054----
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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
Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Visible as a small semi-circle of hachures abutting a roadway on the 1916 OS 6-inch map but indicated as a ‘Gravel pit, disused’ on the OS 25-inch map (1893). This is a quarry (c. 20m x c. 10m; max. D 2-3m), D-shaped with the straight side at N where it abuts the road. It is covered in stones of assorted sizes that may have been field stones.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.