Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Freaghavaleen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Freaghavaleen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1918)
- Coordinates
- 52.89117, -9.39713
- SMR number
- CL022-009----
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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 ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Named on the OS 25-inch map (1895) as ‘Clay pit (disused)’ and indicated as a pit on the 1918 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1998 this was verified as a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.