Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Clonroad Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84473, -8.98258
- SMR number
- CL033-082030-
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
At no. 10 Abbey Street, Ennis within the historic town (CL033-082----). An inscribed stone uncovered above and slightly to the right of the front door during the demolition of the remains of a 17th-century house (CL033-082029-) in August 1990. The inscription, in Roman capitals, reads ‘JAMES MACNAMARA BUILT THIS HOUSE ANNO DOMINI 1661’. The stone is on display in a wooden frame inside the present building constructed on the same site. (Ó Murchadha 1991, 33-4) CL033-082030-_01.jpg attached. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 April 2014
References
Ó Murchadha, C. 1991 In search of James MacNemara, Merchant of Ennis. The Other Clare 15, 33-4.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Market-houseunder 1 mi
- Innunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.