Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Clonroad More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84433, -8.96897
- SMR number
- CL033-086----
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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
On a fairly severe SE-facing slope down to the River Fergus, c. 100m to the E and in an area subject to periodic flooding. Listed as Earthwork complex in the SMR (1992) and in the RMP (1996). Due to the proximity of Clonroad Castle some 400m to the NW excavations were undertaken by John Hunt in 1946 during operations to build a sewage treatment plant. No structural features other than a drain were found. Some animal bone, mussel shells and one human skull fragment were found in the lower layers of fill which consisted of ash and charcoal. Fragments of medieval pottery were scattered across the site the most important being a fragment of Polychrome ware. Seven bronze fragments were noted, one being the spout of a vessel. (Hunt 1946, 195-209)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 June 2014
References
Hunt, J. 1946 Clonroad More, Ennis. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 76, 195-209.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.