Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91469, -8.44954
- SMR number
- CL029-009129-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated immediately N of St. Brigid’s Church (CL029-009006-) within the enclosure that surrounds it (CL029-009007-). During excavation in 1970-72 (Licence no. E000180) evidence of iron-working was found. Fragments of furnace-bottom were evident in one pit as well as quantities of clinker and bloom. (de Paor 2013, 34, 51)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 November 2015
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.