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Road - road/trackway

Clareabbey, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Clareabbey, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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