Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Clareabbey, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clareabbey
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82889, -8.96938
- SMR number
- CL033-120002-
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
Excavation in 2005 as part of works associated with the N18 Ennis Bypass and N85 Western Relief Road immediately outside the S range of Clareabbey (CL033-120----) and parallel to the W wall of the cloister, revealed two gullies (5m apart) running parallel to each other in a NE-SW direction. This corresponds with a trackway shown on the 1840 OS 6-inch map that led to the abbey church gate. The E gully was radiocarbon dated to AD 1220-1310 and AD 1360-1380 (Beta-231533). Four large post-holes continued on the line of the E gully and a pig bone from one of these was dated to AD 1160-1290. It is more than likely that the trackway existed in the 13th or 14th century. (Hull and Joubert 2008, 22)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 May 2015
References
Hull, G. and Joubert, S. 2008 Medieval monastic occupation and post-medieval military activity at Clare Abbey, Co. Clare. The Other Clare 32, 21-6.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.